Do we need the FCC anymore?

We live in a digital age, with electronic ideas that empowers us, then we do we still give the power away? The digital age really has given us the ability to make more things respond to individuals. Most members of any television audiences know that you can go to the FCC and file a complain when you feel the TV show you are watching is indecent. Also the FCC gets the ability to tell broadcasters what they can and can not show and at what times. This made sense in the 50's and 60's and even until the mid 90's but now we are in the 2000's. I'm not stating that we are more immoral. I'm stating that we have more technology that allows us to make decisions about what we want to watch. As audiences members we can block out anything we wish not to view. We can include a password to make sure the kids don't see these indecent things when the parents aren't around. The most widely known technology that provides censorship for TVs is the v-chip(http://www.v-chip.org/) but yet the FCC leaves higher fees each year to make a point of what they want and don't want on TV, why should they have this right? Maybe I want to sit down at 7pm, get a cold coke and watch some violent TV, but instead you are often forced to watch just what the FCC wants. I realize it is suppose to be for the good of families, but can't they change the channel or block it out? Yes, I know there are DVDs, I have many of them. Yes, I know there are cable and other paid services. This isn't the point. the point is why are we letting a group make decisions instead of the individual? Some parents doesn't even let their kids watch PG-13 movies until they are 17. These parents should have that choice. Currently they have that choice with the v-chip, but why do we need the FCC doing the same thing? The FCC seems like they are just taking extra money and fines that could have gone to better government programs and much better TV shows. The other thing I don't get is when I hear people complaining how much violence is on TV. We live in a consumer society, if you don't like something don't buy or watch it. When you buy, or watch something you are helping to promote it. No matter how much money the station has it won't keep on a show if there are no viewers. If you are truly against a show that most people watch and enjoy. Why should you get the right to complain and have a heavy fine, just to make the statement “you need to tone down the TV show.” Maybe most of the viewers don't want it toned down. If you dislike some content on a TV show do us all a favor block it out with the V-chip and change the channel, so that the rest of us can enjoy the TV show and not have it changed to fit your personal tastes of what you or your kids should or should not see. Indecency fines are for the 1920's, not for the 2000's.

http://www.filmratings.com/ (go to rating guide)
http://www.v-chip.org (censorship of TV viewing)

The Latest of the high fees by the FCC