The silent majority is starting to make noise.
While the Parents Television Council and its allies have loudly demanded the government stiffen its anti-indecency resolve, some of the numerous viewers not scandalized by a bare breast or a graphic obscenity are trying to make themselves heard.
SpeakSpeak.org is a Web site dedicated to impressing upon the Federal Communications Commission that "the PTC does not speak for all of us."
For instance, much of the FCC's recent upswing in actions against indecency was prompted by the roughly 1.2 million complaints the agency received about Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction. But 88.7 million others who saw the 2004 Super Bowl didn't complain. SpeakSpeak.org likes to think it speaks for them.
Similarly motivated, Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) recently introduced a bill that would prohibit the FCC from extending its indecency authority over cable and satellite, which some in Congress want.
"A small number of right-wing fundamentalists are trying to impose their values on the vast majority of the American people," Sanders told
Variety. "A cowed Congress has gone along, but we're gaining support."
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