[RawAlex]

Colin, the system itself isn't defective. People should have the right to voice an opinion.

I have a problem with organized groups that attempt to abuse systems in order to effect change. If these are truly "moral" people, they would not be watching a "cheating spouses" show to start with. I suspect that in the 1 million members, less than 1% of them actually watch the shows that they complain about. As mentioned in the article, once the FCC starts removing compaints from people who "just heard about the bad thing", the numbers drop very quickly.

Organized campaigns don't require original thought from the complainers: Just go here, click on this link, and a premade complaint will be formed up and sent to the FCC. That isn't complaining, that is just clicking buttons.

It's the old rule from prize drawings: hand written entries only, no mechanical reproductions. What the PTC does is the equivilant of stuffing the drawing bin. Their members are not expressing their PERSONAL outrage at something, just towing the group line.

I would suspect that if they went further and investigated, they would find that the submitting IP address on many of these was the same, I wouldn't put it past a group like this to have a system automatically send 1 complaint for each member automatically.

Does that 2400% increase in complaints mean that any more people were TRULY offended by what they INDIVIDUALLY saw on tv? I don't think so. Michael Powell, in presenting these raw numbers to congress may have attempted to use this as justification for some very agressive actions where less over the top fines were not normally justified. I applaud fox for taking this one man censorship committee to task in the courts.

Alex