FCC Settles Censorship Claims with ClearChannel

The Importance of writes "Earlier this week Slashdot debated whether the FCC should be abolished. One of the reasons many think the FCC should go away is because of censorship. Well, yesterday, the FCC settled all existing censorship investigations with Clear Channel for $1.75M and a promise to be better in the future, such as by firing DJs for their first offense. Clear Channel also plead guilty to violating indecency standards, but no one is saying what, exactly they said that was wrong. On the other hand, the FCC seems to have forgotten that they decided a couple of months ago to regulate profanity in addition to indecency. In other FCC news, they've posted the internet section of the FCC History Project."

Comments

Re:Sad news ... Ray Charles, dead at 74

[NanoGator]

" I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Singer/Songwriter Ray Charles was found dead in his Maine home this morning."

Whaddya know, he really is.

(Note: No, I'm not belitting his death. Though I haven't seen it recently, it used to be a common troll to say somebody famous died. Almost that exact same warning.)

I have a solution

[thebra]

We all have RFID chips inserted in our brains with our date of birth. All radio/tv/internet content is then filtered based on our age. RFID to save the world!

Re:Sad news... Ray Charles, dead at 73

[dustinbarbour]

Congrats, but is this story not about the FCC and ClearChannel?