Sunday, February 27, 2011

Debate

I thought the debate was really interesting. I feel that we should have defined the amount of regulation that each side desired. It seemed that those that were "for"censorship thought that an advertising arena completely free of regulation would have been created. While those against censorship wanted to maintain the level of regulation currently in affect.
Currently "advertising" is protected under the first amendment as it a form of speech. This form of speech is considered commercial speech. Commercial speech can be determined "deceptive" by the FTC and can  then be removed from the media.
I feel that this discrepancy created a slight issue with the debate being that not everyone was on the same page. I personally am satisfied with the current level of regulation and don't feel that the government should have the right to regulate it anymore then it already does.

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