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Amputate Your Head · 07-13-2010, 01:39 PM

NYC court tosses FCC's fleeting expletives policy - Jul 2010

(07-13) 11:11 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) --

A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out a government policy that can lead to broadcasters being fined for allowing even a single curse word on live television, concluding that the rule was unconstitutionally vague and had a chilling effect on broadcasters. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan struck down the 2004 Federal Communications Commission policy, which said that profanity referring to sex or excrement is always indecent.

"By prohibiting all `patently offensive' references to sex, sexual organs and excretion without giving adequate guidance as to what `patently offensive' means, the FCC effectively chills speech, because broadcasters have no way of knowing what the FCC will find offensive," the appeals court wrote. "To place any discussion of these vast topics at the broadcaster's peril has the effect of promoting wide self-censorship of valuable material which should be completely protected under the First Amendment," it added.

"The score for today's game is First Amendment one, censorship zero," said Andrew Jay Schwartzman, policy director of Media Access Project, which joined the case on behalf of musicians, producers, writers and directors.

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JFK · 07-13-2010, 01:45 PM

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ReGGs · 07-13-2010, 01:48 PM

Let's hope there isn't any more errant black titties popping out at the super bowl or it's right back to where we started.

ottopottomouse · 07-13-2010, 01:48 PM

Do you live in 1960 or something?

Amputate Your Head · 07-13-2010, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by ottopottomouse

Do you live in 1960 or something?

Actually, I have no idea why you would ask such a thing. The news article is from today, and the song track is from '04... neither has anything to do with the 1960s.

Ethersync · 07-13-2010, 01:55 PM

Awesome news.

Amputate Your Head · 07-13-2010, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ReGGs

Let's hope there isn't any more errant black titties popping out at the super bowl or it's right back to where we started.

A 7 second delay could have prevented that whole fiasco. Don't know why video was exempt from that basic broadcast rule, but they aren't any more.

D Ghost · 07-13-2010, 03:28 PM

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XPays · 07-13-2010, 08:02 PM

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ottopottomouse · 07-14-2010, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Actually, I have no idea why you would ask such a thing. The news article is from today, and the song track is from '04... neither has anything to do with the 1960s.

It just seems very behind how expletive filled the media is here.

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