According to Jeff Jarvis from Buzzmachine - It was just three people which happened to be the cause of the FCC's $1.2 million fine against FOX for it's "***ually suggestive"
Married by America.
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I examined the complaints and found that all but two of them were virtually identical. In other words, one person took the time to write a letter and 20 other people then photocopied or merely emailed it to the FCC many times. They all came from an automated complaint factory like the one I write about here. Only two letters were not the form letter.
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Yes,
it was just three people who affected free speech and caused a company to cough up $1.2 million.
Jarvis correctly questions the sad state of affairs in this country which led to this and the recent freak out over whether or not to air
Private Ryan.
And just as someone at
AdRants pointed out : When companies and the government leave their back bone at the door and bend over for every individual complaint, we become not a democracy but a dictatorship run by individuals who have co-opted our Constitution.
It needs to be highlighted:
Just Three people out of 295 million caused the FCC to fine a company $1.2 Million for a show which had already been cancelled because the audience didn't like it !
This means that the other 99+ percent of viewers were either okay with the content or just used the remote control.