You guys are nuts. The show is rubbish. Its not like anyone is forcing you to eat out of the rubbish bin. All this nonsense about freedom of speech and the spurious definitions and qualifications of what is a freedom are thoroughly pointless. Stop chasing the mice in your heads.

If you qualify a freedom then it 'aint a freedom.

If you qualify freedom of speech then you clearly and self evidently dont adhere to that notion. The freedom to speak means the freedom to say the unpalatable. THATS THE POINT! Freddom is a RESPONSIBILITY and its plainly obvious that many folks arent comfortable with the attendant accountability. Ironic are the call for big brother government and the nanny state to step in and impose morality (whatever that means), order and control over folks who are in the grips of being controlled by the remote control.

The freedom to speak does not obligate passers-by to listen.

The idea that one cannot avoid hearing or seeing the crap that surrounds us in this world is childish. You dont have to eat what they put in front of you. That's the challenge of life... to critically evaluate the world around us and that to which we are exposed. If you want to absolutely 'protect' the children from the ills of the world then quite simply... dont have any. Protecting people from their own minds is a bizarre notion.

And yes you can actually turn off the idiot box. Some parents dont let the kids watch the idiot box until they are around 10yrs of age. With good reason l would suggest. Mainstream media is infected with dribble. By all means you wanna eat off a dirty plate, go ahead.

Me, l will just not turn the TV on. Its not rocket science.

There are no freedoms. Its an illusion.

Australians has been called the white trash of Asia (Singapore), crude and vulgar (Indonesia), having no culture of its own (Japan) and a lot of other things. Producing and showing programs like “Big Brother” supports this impression. If we junk our kids with this sort of stuff what will we have?
Commercial television generally must lift its game; there is not much there at the moment

Dear PK,
It looks to me like a stack a fresh voices have joined OLO. Full marks for observation!

But given some of the tired old hands, that have made this forum their nest, their patch, their pulpit and - their limit - that can't be all bad.

However, is it now a case of "get your democratic right to speak some common sense, off my freedom to play "I'm a free spirit" games on OLO"?
Or, more simply, 'You can't all do this, I was here first'.

Every now and then, some idiot goes and wakes the sleeping giant of common sense.
One wonders what might happen, if he caught insomnia.

Good stuff Bill. The same bleeding hearts complain when these sort of incidents occur in the 'real world'. Get this rubbish off the air...

Channel Ten may have been cleared of breaching broadcast rules over the Big Brother "Turkey Slap" incident but are not without blame. The Code of Practice states that, "a program or program segment will not be acceptable where the subject matter serves largely or wholly as a vehicle for gratuitous, exploitative or demeaning portrayal of sexual behaviour or nudity. Exploitative or non consenting sexual relations must not be depicted as desirable" (Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice- July 2004).

The Big Brother franchise has fallen short of these self-regulated rules regularly this year. Such programs should not be dictating our limits of acceptability. The communications minister needs to take a stand against these breaches.

MaNiK_JoSiAh,

Could you please tell me at what time did the Ten Network air the alleged incident on one of it's Big Brother programmes.

I think you will find that the Ten Network did not put to air any such segment on Television - therefore the breach of the Telecommunications Act / Code of Conduct that you refer to did not happen.

The only times this was aired on Television was grainy pictures by opposing TV networks in their news segments, which only displayed part of the story.

Narcissist,

I'm sorry that you have been misled by the fact that I overquoted the Code of Practice. The breaches were in regards to the following portion (relevant to the Mature Audience classification): "a program or program segment will not be acceptable where the subject matter serves largely or wholly as a vehicle for gratuitous, exploitative or demeaning portrayal of sexual behaviour or nudity." Your passionate defense of this program suggests to me that you have most likely watched the 'uplate' or 'adults only' programs of the BB franchise (regularly?). Can you now understand how these programs have often breached the self-regulated code?

Apologies again for my excessive quote.