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QUESTION: Why Don’t FCC “Decency Standards” Apply To School Libraries?

Noah here with a simple question….

We have “Decency Standards” imposed by the FCC that govern what can and cannot be said on Television during

Did you know that?

The reason: “because there’s a reasonable expectation that children may be watching” during the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.

Got it.

So….is there a “reasonable expectation that children may be present” in their own school libraries?

Where did our common sense go?

WARNING: what you are about to read and watch is very graphic.  Reader discretion is advised.

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I challenge you to listen to this short little clip and not blush…

Better yet, play it in front of some family or friends or coworkers and let me know how uncomfortable it gets.

And that’s exactly the point.

Far Left Libs think this kind of book is exactly what needs to be in Elementary and Middle Schools and High Schools.

Great education!

Open up their minds!

I say complete garbage.

We’ve removed God, removed the 10 Commandments, removed the Family, removed even the Pledge of Allegiance.

And we’ve replaced it with this trash…

Watch here:

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Full video is here if you want to hear even more:

The irony is you couldn’t even allow that on TV.

Why do we have “standards for the airwaves”?

Did you even know that we have those?

It’s why certain things cannot appear on TV.

Read this for more and then consider if we have these rules to protect children, then why are these books ok in children’s schools…..from ChatGPT, read this:

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) oversees and enforces decency standards for the United States’ public airwaves. These standards are applied to ensure that broadcast content adheres to a certain level of decorum, suitable for the general audience, and does not disseminate offensive material. The FCC regulates broadcast television, radio, and other mediums that use public airwaves, but it doesn’t regulate content on cable TV, streaming services, or the internet, which are not broadcast over public airwaves.

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FCC Decency Standards

The FCC’s decency standards primarily focus on prohibiting obscene, indecent, and profane content. Each of these terms denotes a specific kind of content:

  1. Obscene Content: Content is obscene if it appeals to an average person’s prurient interest; depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
  2. Indecent Content: This is content that portrays sexual or excretory organs or activities in a way that does not meet the obscene criteria but is still offensive by contemporary community standards.
  3. Profane Content: Profane content includes offensive words that are considered a public nuisance.

Timing and Safe Harbor Period

The FCC’s enforcement of these standards is particularly stringent during the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience. However, between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.—known as the “Safe Harbor” period—broadcasters have more leniency, and content with a higher degree of offensive material may be aired.

Examples of Prohibited Content

To understand which content is deemed indecent, profane, or obscene, one must consider specific examples. Graphic sexual content, such as explicit scenes or dialogue, is usually considered inappropriate, especially if it is intended to pander, titillate, or shock. Graphic depictions of excretory functions, intense violence, and extreme profanity are also likely to breach the decency standards.

Case Instances:

  1. The Janet Jackson Incident (2004 Super Bowl) One of the most notorious cases is the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, where a “wardrobe malfunction” resulted in the exposure of Janet Jackson’s breast. This incident sparked intense debate and led to immediate FCC action, resulting in substantial fines and heightened scrutiny of live broadcast events.
  2. George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words” Monologue George Carlin’s famous “Seven Dirty Words” monologue led to a seminal Supreme Court case, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1978), which upheld the FCC’s authority to regulate indecent material on the airwaves. Carlin’s words included explicit and offensive language, which was categorized as indecent, and it set a precedent on how the FCC would handle similar content in the future.
  3. Howard Stern Broadcasts Radio host Howard Stern’s shows have faced multiple fines from the FCC due to indecent content, including explicit sexual discussions and profanity.

Context Consideration

Importantly, the FCC considers context in assessing whether content is obscene, indecent, or profane. An offensive word used in a news program may be seen in a different light compared to the same word used in a comedic skit. Context includes the nature of the content, the time it was broadcasted, and the overall message or artistic value of the program. While some instances are clear-cut violations, many are contingent on nuanced contextual factors.

Enforcement and Complaints

Enforcement of these standards is largely complaint-driven. The FCC relies on viewers and listeners to file complaints about potential violations. Once a complaint is filed, the FCC reviews the content in question, evaluates its context, and decides whether it violates decency standards. The broadcasters found in violation of the FCC’s rules can face fines, license revocations, or other enforcement actions.

Impact on Broadcasters and Creators

The decency standards have a significant impact on broadcasters and content creators. They need to be cognizant of the restrictions and mindful of the content aired during the regulated hours. They employ delay systems during live broadcasts to prevent unintended indecent content from being aired, and they often edit content, bleeping out offensive words or blurring offensive images, to avoid violations.

Balancing Act: Free Speech vs. Public Interest

These standards represent a balancing act between First Amendment rights and protecting the public—especially children—from offensive content. The Supreme Court has recognized that the government has an interest in shielding children from potentially harmful material and in helping parents control the content that enters their homes. However, the FCC’s authority is not unlimited and is subject to judicial review to ensure it doesn’t infringe on First Amendment rights.

Changes and Challenges

The landscape of broadcast media has significantly evolved, with the advent of the internet, streaming services, and cable TV. These platforms operate outside the FCC’s decency standards, challenging the relevance and efficacy of the existing regulatory framework. Debates continue regarding the modifications needed in these standards to address the evolving media landscape while balancing the need for free expression and public interest protection.

Conclusion

The FCC’s decency standards serve as a foundational framework to regulate content on public airwaves, prohibiting obscene, indecent, and profane content, especially when children are likely to be in the audience. They have shaped the broadcast industry, impacting content creators and prompting discussions about the balance between free speech and public interest. While they have been pivotal in maintaining a semblance of decorum in broadcast media, their adaptability and relevance in the modern, multifaceted media environment are subjects of ongoing discussions and debates.

Ok, so read the bold red part above again — the reason we have these rules is because there’s a reasonable risk children may be in the audience!

You think there’s a “reasonable risk children may in the audience” at their school library?

DUH!

So why don’t we have the same standards for school libraries?

Why is John Kennedy able to read that book in Congress which is available in schools across the country and being pushed by the Far Left for wider adoption, when he COULDN’T read that book on ABC, CBS or NBC during daytime hours?

RedState agrees with me:

The book in question is available in various public schools across the country and has become a symbol of the left’s attempt to sexualize children. In light of that, parents across the political spectrum have risen up in order to reassert their rights and demand the removal of pornographic materials from classrooms.

Astonishingly, Democrats have doubled down, proclaiming that Republicans are instituting “book bans” by passing laws to stop school libraries from stocking sexual content. Some states, such as Illinois, have even gone so far as to pass laws against the removal of pornographic materials from classrooms and libraries.

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To illustrate how insanely incoherent that is, Kennedy decided to read directly from Gender Queer during a hearing in which multiple LGBT activists were present and testifying. The responses he received said everything.

Hang on. Why are those words “disturbing?” I mean, if it’s disturbing enough that it shouldn’t be read in the U.S. Senate, certainly it should not be available for kids to read, right? That would be the logical conclusion to draw, but no one has ever accused the modern Democratic Party of being logical or consistent.

Kennedy’s reading was reminiscent of a press conference Gov. Ron DeSantis did in early 2023, where he showed pictures from Gender Queer. Once the pictures were put on screen, mainstream media outlets were forced to censor their own streams, proving the point better than any verbal argument ever could.

It wasn’t just the Illinois Secretary of State who was left seething, though. Everyone’s favorite left-wing social media hack, Aaron Rupar, tried to mock Kennedy and failed miserably.

Here’s more:

GRAPHIC: A Parent Reads From Teen Porno Book Available At School

Are you ok with this?

You ok with your kids reading this book?

We’ve covered a lot of these over the years but this may be the worst one yet.

Just listen and feel how incredibly AWKWARD it is in this room as this brave father stands up in front of all other parents to read a short passage from this book.

If you’re bothered just listening to it, then imagine how much it does not belong in that school library!

WARNING: this is very graphic.  Proceed at your own discretion.

Oh, and he says he actually picked one of the more toned down sections.

Really?

Can you imagine what else is in this thing if this was the less graphic portion?

Watch for yourself:

I do agree with this comment that BANNING books is not the right response.

Just make them available in age-restricted, appropriate places.

And I do NOT think this school library is the appropriate place, do you?

This person says the book also describes incest.

How charming!

Perhaps that’s the “worse” part he chose not to read:

And then we have the million dollar question that I ask every time this comes up….

Doesn’t this solve it right away?

A picture is worth a thousand words:

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MUST SEE: Brave Boy Reads Porno Book Outloud To School Board!

I can’t give this kid enough credit…

Or his father!

This is absolutely a Must-See, although it also comes with a big warning.

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.

This is very graphic.

But that’s kind of the point right?

If I have to give you a warning before even showing you this video, then what the Hell is it doing in a Middle School library?

And just watch that board member in the bottom left of the screen squirm in his seat.

Uncomfortable bud?

Then get this book out of your Middle School library and grow a set of balls (and brain) while you’re at it!

Man, I’m fired up.

Ok, just take a look for yourself:

I can’t give this kid enough praise for the courage it took to get up there and do this.

WELL DONE MY MAN!

You have a bright future.

And well done to your parents for raising such a grounded kid!

Sadly, this isn’t the first time we’ve covered something like this.

Oregon School District Votes to Keep Gay Pornographic Book in Library

Salem-Keizer School District in Oregon faced severe criticism after parents discovered that a pornographic book, Gender Queer, was available in the school library.

In response, the school formed a special committee to determine if the book should be removed.

Common sense would tell anyone that a book with explicit, pornographic images should be nowhere near a school library.

This is what’s available for children to read.

WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES Found Inside Gender Queer

A woman named Suzanne West was given the task to head the committee.

“West’s job description reads: “Crafting and developing strategies that support the district’s movement to become a more anti-racist and anti-oppressive school system,” Libs of TikTok noted.

You’ll probably guess what happened next.

The committee voted last week to keep the book.

Libs of TikTok reported:

It’s no surprise that parents have been outraged at the committee’s decision to keep this pornographic book available for their children. We obtained a copy of an email Suzanne West sent to one concerned parent. The email provided official statements from committee members regarding their decision and they are so unbelievably insane, you have to read them yourself:

  • “The book will be necessary to keep in schools, to help be more inclusive and allow all students from the LGBTQ+ community to have a resource to refer to. In addition, the pages taken out of context do not represent the intention of the book and only served as an illustration to help provide understanding of what the author was trying to portray in their book.”
  • “The book expands on sexual orientation and gender identity which are both topics touched on in wellness.”
  • “It being a graphic novel makes the book more accessible to a variety of readers.”
  • The book “has won a large number of teen-specific literary awards and is an ‘Own Voices’ text for a marginalized community. Inclusion in the library of the three high schools meets the district’s goal for more inclusive and diverse materials.”
  • “This graphic novel is very well done from a literary standpoint. It is an excellent example of a memoir, it includes many visual metaphors, it promotes literacy and accessibility through the graphic format, and it has modern language suitable to our students today.”
  • A “well written/illustrated text; important insight regarding gender identity.”

“We think kids need to read about vibrators, blowjobs, masturbation, and chest binders for ultimate inclusion and a show of diversity,” is what the statement should’ve read. Instead, they mask the graphic nature of the book under the veil of “inclusivity” and accuse concerned parents of taking the book out of context. In what context is a photo of someone receiving oral sex okay to show children?

Libs of TikTok has documented alarmed parents across the nation who have shown up to local school board meetings to try and have the book removed.

One school board even cut off a mother attempting to read the book.

Ironically, the book is too “obscene” for a school board meeting but apparently okay to place inside the school library where children have access.

WATCH:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1502422010068029441?s=20

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1523879644264423426?s=20

Communist school boards are infecting children’s minds with pornographic material and masking it under the guise of “inclusive” to label parents as transphobic, homophobic, and hateful.

The only solution is voting out these school board members or removing children from the school system.

In my personal opinion, I prefer the latter.

And:

HUNDREDS of Muslim Parents in Dearborn, Michigan SHUT DOWN School Board Meeting Over Pornographic Books

There’s a disgusting phenomenon occurring in schools throughout the United States.

Many local school boards and administrators are pushing pornographic books in school libraries.

Read a few prior reports on this disturbing trend:

https://wltreport.com/2022/07/13/oregon-school-district-votes-to-keep-gay-pornographic-book-in-library/

https://wltreport.com/2021/09/15/watch-mayor-demands-school-board-resign-or-face-charges-after-educators-distributed-pornographic-material-to-students/

https://wltreport.com/2021/05/14/despicable-virginia-parents-blast-school-board-over-pornographic-books-assigned-to-ninth-graders/

Parents around the country were shocked and outraged when they became aware of the illegal pornographic books their local schools are pushing on kids in the student libraries.

One book that was found in several libraries is titled, Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe.

The Gateway Pundit explained:

The book is a graphic novel with drawings that explains in lurid detail the sexual interactions between two young men, has been inserted into high school libraries across America, despite it violating guidelines against pornography or sexually explicit materials being provided to minors and paid for with our tax dollars.

Gender Queer includes countless images of male-on-male sexual encounters, accompanied by words that one would expect to find inside literary works at adult porn shops or gay sex clubs and bathhouses. Even so, this book was purchased and pushed by school officials around the country, despite it clearly violating county guidelines.

Here are a couple of pages from the book. Most Americans did not realize this is a PICTURE book with explicit drawings.

WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT

 

 

These are two pages from the book.

How is this legal?

How is graphic content like this placed in a school library?

It’s complete insanity!

“This week Muslim parents shut down a school board meeting over the porn books in their child’s schools,” The Gateway Pundit stated.

WATCH:

Detroit Free Press reported:

Hundreds of protesters packed a Dearborn Public Schools board meeting this week and shut it down with cries of anger over certain LGBTQ books they said are too sexually explicit for children. And now, some community leaders anxiously await a rescheduled meeting set for Thursday night as others call for calm.

A heavy police presence failed to prevent the Monday night meeting from descending into chaos as demonstrators took it over and then various factions within them jostled for control, shouting at each other. Protesters often ignored the requests of police officers to stop interrupting board members.

It was unclear who was in control of the meeting at times. Most of the crowd appeared to be in opposition to the books, but there were also a number of people with the the American Federation of Teachers union who showed up to support inclusion of LGBTQ people and others.

Not until Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin arrived later did the protesters stop their agitation. Shahin pleaded with the crowd to relax and not embarrass Dearborn. There was concern expressed by some community leaders that the protesters are making the city and its Arab American Muslim population look bad. But others said that as Muslims, they have to stand up for their faith.

“The eyes of the nation are on us. … So please, calm down, let’s have respect for each other,” Shahin told the crowd at about 9:10 pm. “We can have a spirited debate, but we can’t conduct ourselves this way, guys, we just can’t. We’re better than this. Dearborn is better than this. This community is better than this. We’re brothers and sisters regardless of race, ethnicity, religion.”

Shahin said the board suspended the meeting and would reschedule it for Thursday evening at Fordson High School in order to accommodate a larger crowd.

“Vote them out!” the crowd repeatedly chanted during the raucous meeting inside an administrative center where the board holds its public meetings. The room was packed tightly, with many using an overflow room and others standing in the back and on the sides. Several held up signs with anti-gay rhetoric in English and Arabic, making religious references to assert that LGBTQ educational materials and books should not be available in Dearborn Public Schools, the third largest school district in Michigan. Some of the placards held up read: “Keep your porno books to yourself,” “Homosexuality Big Sin,” and “If democracy matters, we’re the majority.”

https://twitter.com/nwarikoo/status/1579615610098847745

https://twitter.com/nwarikoo/status/1579632905781145600

https://twitter.com/nwarikoo/status/1579659213101756417

https://twitter.com/nwarikoo/status/1579967902421516291

Read the full story at Detroit Free Press.

As usual, there’s way more to the story….

Jonathan Cahn explains:

Jonathan Cahn Exposes The MYSTERY Behind Pride Month

As you know, we’re big fans of Jonathan Cahn around here.

In fact, I look forward to one day having him on my show to chat.

His research always blows my mind and teaches me new things I hadn’t ever heard about before.

And I know many of you love him too.

So when I saw him teaching on the Secret Mystery behind Pride Month, I knew it would be good.

It’s a short video, only 10 minutes, but so worth it.

Please enjoy:

Full transcript for those who can’t watch/listen:

this is Jonathan Khan it’s June that
means it’s pride month Rainbows are
everywhere on television in department
stores on corporate logos in
supermarkets and parades and children’s
cartoons even on the U.S Air Force
website even on the White House but
what’s really behind it we’re going to
pull away the veil to uncover a secret
that goes back half a century in a
mystery that goes back even farther
thousands of years
this in my hands is the presidential
Proclamation that Biden issue to begin
this month we’re going to expose that
too what does this celebration actually
celebrate the president explains it in
the first words of the Proclamation he
says this in June 1969 a group of
courageous Americans rose up to protest
the violence and marginalization they
faced in what became known as The
Stonewall uprising
June is pride month
because of that the only problem is the
president’s narrative is Twisted the bar
called Stonewall was owned by the mafia
it violated several laws it was
regularly rated what was different that
night is that the people whom the
president prays as courageous Americans
who stood bravely against the police to
protest violence were the ones who

 

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