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FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech
The Importance of writes "The FCC has been regulating 'indecent' speech on the airwaves for quite some time, but have been getting a lot more attention recently. For example, during last year's Golden Globe Awards U2's Bono said 'This is really, really f-ing brilliant.' Last October the FCC ruled that was ok. Yesterday, under political pressure, the FCC overruled that decision. However, for the first time, the FCC also ruled that the f-word is not only 'indecent' but also 'profane.' According to this new decision by the FCC, any speech that is grossly offensive, whether or not it has anything to do with sex or excretion, is 'profane.' This is a major step forward (backward?) for FCC censors. My analysis is here."
shit damn fuck bitch cock cunt george bush slut bitch whore cunt damn fuck shit
:)
now, of those words, which one is REALLY vulgar? [not to mention, a bit daft]
I'm offended that you would think I would be offended by your offensive joke about being offended. Ok enough of that....
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I'm wrote the parent article and arent' surprised. It's Slashdot. Lots of great things happen here and some dumb things. Goes with the territory.
but when it comes to a Republican aide in the Senate hacking into sensitive Democrat files
No hacking was done here. What had happened is a tech left the directories on a shared server that contained Democratic notes unlocked so ANYONE who looked there could see them. Republicans had nothing to do with the screwup on the protection, its just one of there aids found out about it. Nothing illegal was done.
What really is hypocrisy is that people are making a big deal about a few repulicans having access to the memos/notes, not about the content in them. Content that included evidence that Senate Democrats held up judicial nominee sppointments at the request of special intrest groups suchs a NARL or the NAACP. Or that one of the primary reasons the democrats filebustered the nomination of Miguel Estrada was because "he is a latino". They were paranoid of allowing a minority who didnt tow the democratic party line to become a federal judge. That is hypocrisy.
In a related issue, Missouri is in the process of banning "sexy" billboards, while they have a large number of others spouting religious propaganda, which I find far more offensive
God Fucking Damnit
there are too many posts here to read them all.
Here's the great thing about the FCC. They are swayed by the volume of complaints that arrive in their mailbox. Nevermind that many of them come from the same organization, or the same people week after week.
It's worse that the e-voting issues!!
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