WI: Nipplegate if Gore won in 2000

Considering who Gore was married to at the time and Lieberman's crusade against video games, would Gore's administration have a harsher response to the Janet Jackson nipple incident than Bush's administration did?
 

Archibald

Banned
Oh Gosh I remember that scandal, the backlash was so utterly ridiculous. Imagine if France was making a fuss every time Sophie Marceau showed a breast or a nipple (in fact wardrobe accidents have become a threadmark of her) :p
 
Oh Gosh I remember that scandal, the backlash was so utterly ridiculous. Imagine if France was making a fuss every time Sophie Marceau showed a breast or a nipple (in fact wardrobe accidents have become a threadmark of her) :p
To top it off, Janet Jackson's nipple wasn't actually seen. It was covered by a star.
 
Oh Gosh I remember that scandal, the backlash was so utterly ridiculous. Imagine if France was making a fuss every time Sophie Marceau showed a breast or a nipple (in fact wardrobe accidents have become a threadmark of her) :p
I've also read that few people actually cared and it was just one organization that made a big fuss out of it. Anyway, I wonder if this is one of the few (possibly the only) good thing about Dubya beating Gore.
 
A harsher response was warranted. You can't set that precedent with the Rolling Stones being the halftime performer the following year.
 

QueerSpear

Banned
It might butterfly away Youtube as it was the difficulty in finding footage of Jackson's exposed breast that inspired Youtube's creation.
 
I doubt it. What else could they realistically have done other than hit them with an FEC fine like IOTL that would probably still get overturned?

This assumes the whole thing doesn't just get butterflied. That was a totally random occurrence, and something as significant as the election of a President is going to produce probably hundreds of trillions of minor moment to moment butterflies by the time you get four years out.
 
It might butterfly away Youtube as it was the difficulty in finding footage of Jackson's exposed breast that inspired Youtube's creation.

I doubt it. There's still too many reasons for people to want and need a cheap, easy method of sharing video footage.

I will allow that butterflies could have meant it was formed by different people at a different time or under a different name, etc.
 
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