Senator Fritz Hollings (D - SC), aka "the Senator from Disney", has for the seventh time introduced legislation against television violence (Hollings’ TV Violence "Safe Harbor" Legislation Approved by Commerce Committee). Read the summary of the bill here: BACKGROUND: Senator Hollings' TV Violence "Safe Harbor" Legislation, which claims, among other things, that:
The legislation is narrowly targeted to comply with Constitutional scrutiny. The "safe harbor" legislation does not prevent broadcasters from offering violent programming. It simply directs those programs to hours when most children are not watching – the same way the FCC treats "indecent" programming today. Courts have upheld the regulation of indecency, and furthermore, Attorney General Janet Reno and several Constitutional scholars have testified that the "Children's Protection from Violent Programming Act" would be "constitutionally permissible." If children can be constitutionally protected from indecent material, they should also be protected from gratuitous violence.
Since the Senator is retiring I doubt we will have to worry about this never-gonna-pass legislation being introduced an eighth time.
Perhaps he can append the legislation to the flag burning amendment, which Hollings has voted for in its previous incarnations. The Hartford Courant (reg. req.) editorializes about this ridiculous assault on freedom of expression here: Has Anyone Seen A Flag Burn?:
In reality, the flag-burning amendment is a solution in search of a problem. Does anyone remember seeing flag desecration recently? Ever? Such deplorable incidents are rare, and can be handled with local vandalism laws unless the desecrator owns the flag in question.
via Buzzmachine and How Appealing