A piece of legislation that frankly has me conflicted

Do you like to watch television ?
At night or in the mornings ??

Have you noticed that some commercials are unusually loud ??
I mean really really loud ??
Loud enough to knock you out of a pleasant slumber ??

Yep me too. Usually I just note the advertiser and try to never ever do business with them.

Well it seems this isn't good enough for some of our congress critters. They have introduced H.R. 6209

The CALM Act (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act) (Since when did it become a requirement that legislation needed a cute acronym ??)

To require the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe a standard to preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany.

Its a nice idea on the surface. My first response was yes, I won't have those annoying jewelers that advertise on FOX waking me up in the morning.

Then I thought hold it. Just what is the government doing screwing with private businesses ?? I mean isn't this between the television channel, the advertiser and me ?? Wasn't it bad enough when they started playing games with the NFL and baseball? Last but not least whatever happened to free speech ?

Then just to complicate things I realized I get my television from the local cable monopoly. So it isn't between me, the television station and the advertiser. You have to throw in the cable company (which is usually responsible for the really loud ads) and the politicians they bought off to get the franchise. (Yes they did buy them off. It was the way things were done).

So now I have the question is it ok for congress to stomp on a monopoly that was more than likely created by questionable means for the purpose of improving the lot of the citizenry ??

Just to complicate things further, the only places I notice the loud tactic still being used are the local commercials the cable companies insert. The national stations and even my local stations have gone to some sort of volume normalization that prevents excessively loud commercials. So is this a piece of legislation that is needed or something that will take care of itself

Crossposted at Redstatet