POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Federal Communications Commission, Erin Mills
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Federal communications commission (fcc) they also deal with issues of obscenity. Canadian broadcasting standards council they are the ones that handles the issues of potential censorship. Formal censorship: what the government does: thou shall not say this, do this, etc, generally the state doesn"t engage in a huge amount of censorship. Informal censorship: we censor one another out of economic or social sanctions: spiral of silence: how people perceive other peoples opinions if you perceive something, what happens. I love bill cosby, and there"s 2 bill cosbies: the funny guy, and the sexual assault guy. And i have a ticket and i felt that all of you are hating bill cosby, i stay silent and i don"t go because i will be a minority. And if they ask you something, you can"t just be silent. They discovered that people have avoidance techniques to try and evade answering: Reply with a question, change topic, etc.
