FCC to Require Broadcasters to Keep Tapes of Shows

The Importance of writes "Under current FCC rules, in order to make an indecency complaint about a broadcast you have to provide "a significant excerpt from the program or a full or partial tape or transcript of the program." However, broadcasters aren't required to keep a tape of their broadcasts so, rarely, an indecency complaint gets dismissed for lack of evidence. But that is going to change. The FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [PDF] [TXT] that will require broadcasters to maintain recordings of their broadcasts for 60-90 days. The FCC is also considering reducing what you must claim in order to enter a complaint, thus opening the floodgates for indecency complaints by groups like the Parents Television Council, which is already keeping the FCC censors busy. Doesn't the government have better things to do?"

Comments

"The F- Word"???

[Anonymous Coward]

"Fuck" is so obscene that the FCC can't even spell it out in a document that defines it as an obscene word? America sucks SO very much.

Re:I don't understand ...

[Anonymous Coward]

i dont get your point between good moral citizens and that religion has no part of the schools.

i think both are correct.

just because something is the parents responsibility does not mean the schools cant share in it.

and religion has neither to with either.

Re:Why don't they call it

[Flamingcheeze]

Yeah, that sounds much better than the more accurate "Repealing of the 5th Amendment Law."