Once-Conservative Adelphia is adding hard-core porn to its cable lineup in what, I think, is the best example of “let the market decide” there could be.
“People want it, so we are trying to provide it,” Adelphia spokeswoman Erica Stull said. “The more Xs, the more popular.”
Amen. Adults want adult entertainment and they should be allowed to have it if they do.
Despite an outcry among some religious organizations, parent groups and political figures over the coarsening content coming into homes, the “indecency” backlash could lead to even more graphic programming on subscription services
Frankly, I’m quite tired of religious organizations, parent groups, and the likes of them trying to regulate every single thing that adults indulge themselves in.
Most of the television-related complaints come from L. Brent Bozell’s Parents Television Council. And while I think the Media Research Center does an important job, I think the PTC needs to be disbanded and stop interfering in the entertainment that adults can partake in.
Mediaweek, a weekly trade publication for broadcasters of television and radio programming had this to say in its December 6, 2004 issue:
What Powell did not reveal—apparently because he was unaware—was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003—99.8 percent—were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group.
This year, the trend has continued, and perhaps intensified.
Through early October, 99.9 percent of indecency complaints—aside from those concerning the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl halftime show broadcast on CBS— were brought by the PTC, according to the FCC analysis dated Oct. 1. (The agency last week estimated it had received 1,068,767 complaints about broadcast indecency so far this year; the Super Bowl broadcast accounted for over 540,000, according to commissioners’ statements.)
I only bring this up because I want to prepare you for the kind of opposition that Adelphia’s move is likely to receive. As you hear numerous times in the lamestream media how the public is outraged over some anal sex and a few blowjobs, think about the pattern we’re talking about here and how historically the average person just doesn’t care.
The case against Adelphia is particularly weak considering that cable is a pay service with parental blocking built into it. If you don’t want it, don’t buy it.
But, in my estimation, Adelphia is going to get screwed (no pun intended) because there is a cottage industry in this country; one that is always waiting for that very moment to pounce on something and call it the Soddom and Gamorrah of the modern era.
Go Adelphia, and sell all the smut you want! Let the people eat…
Oh forget it. I’m not going there 
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