The Walking Dead BROKE FCC regulations! GRAPHIC violence before 10PM is ILLEGAL. - UPDATE: does not apply to cable, I was wrong.

Aired to over 17 million (beating the NFL)



I had to leave the room, hubby watched the second half without me. I will never watch that show again, and ive watched it all.

The gross brutality and evilness was over the top and its this kind of evil that has desensitized our nation to the point that real death does not shock us anymore.

I am angry that they did this! Screw them! They lost viewers for it! ~GLP anon coward

The LawDOES NOT APPLY TO CABLE

What are the statutes and rules regarding the broadcast of obscene, indecent, and profane programming? Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 1464, prohibits the utterance of any obscene, indecent or profane language by means of radio communication. Consistent with a subsequent statute and court case, the Commission's rules prohibit the broadcast of indecent material during the period of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. FCC decisions also prohibit the broadcast of profane material between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Civil enforcement of these requirements rests with the FCC, and is an important part of the FCC's overall responsibilities. At the same time, the FCC must be mindful of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Section 326 of the Communications Act, which prohibit the FCC from censoring program material, or interfering with broadcasters' free speech rights.

What makes material obscene? Obscene speech is not protected by the First Amendment and broadcasters are prohibited, by statute and regulation, from airing obscene programming at any time. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, to be obscene, material must meet a three-prong test: (1) an average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest (i.e., material having a tendency to excite lustful thoughts); (2) the material must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and (3) the material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. The Supreme Court has indicated that this test is designed to cover hard-core pornography.

What makes material indecent? Indecent material contains sexual or excretory material that does not rise to the level of obscenity. For this reason, the courts have held that indecent material is protected by the First Amendment and cannot be banned entirely. It may, however, be restricted to avoid its broadcast during times of the day when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience. The FCC has determined, with the approval of the courts, that there is a reasonable risk that children will be in the audience from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., local time. Therefore, the FCC prohibits station licensees from broadcasting indecent material during that period.


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I was wrong, these regulations do not apply to cable TV.

With all the stuff going on in the world, this is what you worry about?

I have been a fan of the show since the second season premiered. It has always been violent and gory...it's a drama/horror show after all.

Hershel got his head chopped off
Rick tore Joes throat out ( was awesome )
Terminus Throat Slashing/Eating Bob's leg

However I do think the show has been more sad/scary over the years.

The Season 7 premiere did leave me horrified and sick to my stomach. Which I think is awesome. The show writers did their job. To make us sad, sick, and to hate the new character Negan.

No one forces anyone to watch the show. Also as far as the parents letting their kids watch. Well it's to damn bad they haven't been reading the warnings.

Also this show isn't desensitizing everyone. My parents taught me the difference between make believe and reality. No one died and zombies aren't real.

This is necessary in a show already based on graphic violence, in order to get the viewers to understand just how bad Negan is and to invest in hating him. They can't give you a moment of triumph without making you hate Negan and want to see him stopped.

Stop and think for a minute, Rick and Co attacked his people and murdered them.

Now if somebody attacked and murdered my people they would be very fortunate to get it with a baseball bat.

Know what i'm saying?

This is what happens when some idiot from Canada thinks they know this country.

Dumbass

Disagree.

For starters it's a show about the end of the world, at least as we know it. A world where there is no law, no order, just chaos. A world where sick fucks can finally do what they wanna do out in the open with no consequence. Graphic/extreme violence has to be a part of the storyline, it's reasonable considering the scenario. The show isn't popular because of the violence, it's popular because people are fascinated by a world in which society has broken down, we have no technology, no luxuries, no nothing. No job, no bills, no GOVERNMENT.

The big problem here is dumbfuck parents that let their kids sit down and watch it.

The other problem is we live in a world where rape, murder, shootings, stabbings, beheadings and dismemberment is an every day thing. There was a story the other day on this site about a girl being gang raped and impaled after. Kids don't need to watch tv shows like TWD to get fucked up. All they have to do is turn on the news or get online and read all of the horrific stories that are out there.

I watched that show for the first time on that episode...

My thoughts were, no wonder people are so fucked up.

People wonder why little girls are torturing puppies and shit?

Look at what we are putting out there for them.

So I actually agree with you in a way OP..

That show is over the fucking top and is harming people no doubt in my mind.

The fact that it's so popular should tell you something about the society we live in.

Well first of all, many of us record show and skip right to the show so we never saw 1 warning. Secondly,we watch death on this show every episode so the expectation was that the carnage should have been in a similar vein, which it was not!

a baseball bat wrapped in bwire? You mean like when we see them carrying machetes and stakes in other episodes?
That bat in and of itself did not create the horribleness of the scenes, the writers and director and producers did.

So since this thread has already been proved to be absolute bullshit, remind me again mods why it's still pinned?....... yeah thought so.

Oh c'mon now...throughout history people would crush the skulls of retarded babies. They killed each other indiscriminately in the most brutal ways possible. They would hang people in public and their heads would occasionally pop off (with children watching).

A TV show? Really?

:whack:

Just my 2 cents.

I think society is way way way too sheltered. Life is a giant brutal cunt! Get used to it. Civilization is about to fail...you want some real gore?

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Oh c'mon now...throughout history people would crush the skulls of retarded babies. They killed each other indiscriminately in the most brutal ways possible. They would hang people in public and their heads would occasionally pop off (with children watching).

A TV show? Really?



Just my 2 cents.

I think society is way way way too sheltered. Life is a giant brutal cunt! Get used to it. Civilization is about to fail...you want some real gore?

There are a couple of other threads regarding the latest airing of this show. I've never watched it, and the other threads don't mention what was actually shown other than something about how messed up it was. If even the hard-core fans of the show are upset, I guess it must have been pretty bad.

Negan is possibly the craziest character ever to cross a TV screen...shocking stuff...

Exactly. As gory as the show may have been, drawing & quartering was far more horrific, and actually did happen -- oh, after emasculation and watching the parts get burned before their still seeing eyes. There was typically an audience for said events too.

Think fools won't follow assholes who put heads in jars? take a look at ISIS -- they do far worse to any followers who don't wont to follow orders -- yet, a steady flow of minions head their way.

Yes, it was horrific, but this was cable, and there were HUGE warnings in BIG LETTERS at the start of the show, and after every commercial break stating "GRAPHIC VIOLENCE".

What did they think was going to happen with a barbed wire wrapped ball bat?? Whacking tennis balls or something?