This morning I was trying to send one of my friends a message on Facebook and I got the following message: Warning! Your account could be disabled. You are using this feature to spam other users. Continued misuse of Facebook's features will result in your account being disabled. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page. Really?

Tomorrow, most people in the United States will be celebrating our Independence Day. However, today should be one of mourning. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the "landmark United States Supreme Court decision that defined the power of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over "indecent" material as applied to broadcasting" (1) from the case Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation. This case revolved around a WBAI-FM broadcast of the recently deceased George Carlin's routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". A father who had his young son in the care with him was upset that his son heard the broadcast during an afternoon drive in 1973 and alerted the FCC. There had already been other court cases deciding that obscenities were not protected by the First Amendment, but the FCC was seeking the ability to regulate what it considered indecent content which previously had not been tested.

In the vein of my last post I find myself asking why I am bothering to maintain this site. In the last week or so I have gotten a whopping 20 unique hits. I am willing to bet that 19 of those are search engine bots or spammers with the remaining hit coming from myself. I have no site traffic, I have no subscribers to my blog (both feed counts are my own for monitoring purposes - one for work and home) and generally have nothing important to say. Yet, I continue to update this blog 3-4 four times a month and spend countless hours tweaking functions of my site.