Should media be regulated?

no

I am fascinated by some twisted news and no one can really say who the fuck told the reporters to say specific things. Some shit doesn’t help anybody. Some twisted shit makes it worse. Internet though… it’s impossible to think of a sentence with the words government and internet in it. The internet is legion. Probably the biggest government with the biggest army on the planet. The biggest bullshit of all is that the medias love reality shows and they are going way too far with their power. Piracy is old news. If it was 10-15 years ago it would be real piracy. Now – we listen more to music on youtube, facebook, anywhere, instead of just collecting our music. Today’s music is mostly shit. Yep. I don’t know who still calls this piracy. Some greedy bastards who are full of shit for sure. :) But think about it. If no one talks about those things, why were they put there to work in the first place? They won’t have shit to do, which means no salary. I think it’s a huge circle of bullshit in a loop and it’s doing a great job at it. Just put cameras everywhere! I don’t know much about bloggers since I don’t read every douche that was born.

@Ren Women want that. You must change women if you want such kind of change.

women want to be exploited? i think the only reason any woman would want that is because that has been shown as the only definition of ‘success’ for a woman. if you look good, you’ve succeeded.

media companies want that. they take a certain standard (tall, thin, flawless and fair skin, traditionally blond hair) and make it the standard all women strive for. and they tell you it’s possible just by purchasing these weight loss packages, or this make up, or going to this gym. it’s capitalism that fuels this vicious cycle and the only way to change women is to change the system that knocks them down daily.

If I say “Hitler was a great guy” clearly people will try to censor it, you let censorship get its foot in the door, any opinion is at risk, ridiculous or not. Everything on the net is 2 dimensional, it is not harming anyone, people in the 3 dimensional reality are harming people, you stop them you do not stop megabytes. The fact is that the internet is a source for finding people who harm people and if people stop leaving papertrails by way of internet it becomes much more difficult to find and stop them.
I have a saying “how would you know a bigot if not by what they say?” Same with criminals, the more witnesses the better. Allow it all and characters become recognizable, censor it and these people disappear from justice.
As for journalism, a line must be drawn as to what is just cold unbiased fact and what is propaganda with a political agenda. A news source that has political bias can not claim the rights of freedom of the press but only the rights for freedom of speech.

But it makes me sad of what MTV is today. I can’t even explain my sadness. It’s total crap!

No, never. At least not by a governing body. It sets a really bad precedent.

@Sasho “The media gives them what they want to see”

I don’t recall any television network ever sending me a survey of how I would like my media to be. THEY want to mold ME into something they can sell products to – they are not a reflection of my wants or desires.

Just because the current model of media exploits the sexuality of women to sell products doesn’t mean that this is the way it has to be. Couldn’t we have mass media that didn’t assume its consumer was a heterosexual male with nymphomaniacal tendencies?

Sexuality is most powerful when it is personal, but the portrayal of women in the media like Ren is talking about depersonalizes the sexuality of women; it turns their sexuality into a one-size-fits-all product. That’s why I boycott the shit out of most traditional media.

Possibly to focus more on the positives in the world? Besides that, no.

@Alex, yea, girls sexualize themselves. because that’s what they’re conditioned by society to do. we’re told to be ridiculously experienced sexbots and at the same time ‘virginal.’ we aren’t allowed to take control of our own sex lives without being called whores. there’s this deep contradiction in our values that tell us that women’s bodies are supposed to be readily available for entertainment and use, but women are supposed to be innocent and pure at the same time. it’s bullshit and if you don’t see what’s going on, you’re blind.

@Ren, I understand what you are saying, and I agree. The thing is though is that we create society. Society doesn’t create us. We need to grow out of this, and I can see from other guys my age, that the majority of people are starting to find these sexualized girls unattractive..at least when it comes to the real world. Porn is pretty impersonal if you ask me. If we teach our kids good morals, we can grow out of this.
The reality of it though, is that sex is a major part of the human experience. It’s the gateway to life. Humans have been struggling for a long time with the line in which they should draw. We’re trying to make our urges have to go through the brain first. We’re trying to incorporate our instincts with our mental capacity. We’re basically trying to control our instincts. People are starting to get the hang of it now. Porn is wearing off. Sure, a hell of a lot of people watch it everyday, but its not as taboo anymore..and when things stop being taboo, they lose the spell they had over the masses.
If everyone was naked all the time, this all probably wouldn’t be an issue at all.
What has happened is that human beings are finally starting to realize they must think for themselves. We’ve spent so long just listening to other people, trusting them. We had church, and it became corrupt, but we still blindly followed and believed. Then we woke up and realized those people were controlling us. We made government, and it became corrupt, but we still blindly followed and believed. Now we woke up, and our realizing that we shouldn’t blindly follow ANYTHING.
Our media is corrupt, and people are realizing that we shouldn’t blindly believe what they tell us. Humans are getting more resourceful about information, and we have to, because there is just so much more info out there now. You can use twitter to get information faster than any media business out there. First hand too. We’re still just rubbing our eyes from this wake up, but we’ll be ‘fully conscious’ as soon as we’re done being groggy.

@Alex, Absolutely. It’s as if we’re inherently malleable creatures but as we evolve we are becoming more independent in our beliefs.

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-Network