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Senate Committee Passes FCC Indecency Bill

Posted by Zonk on from the they-thought-of-the-children dept.

An anonymous reader writes "US Senate Commerce Committee today passed a bill that would allow the FCC to fine broadcasters for slip of the tongue expletives, negating a ruling by federal appeals court in New York that commission's policy on 'fleeting expletives' is arbitrary and capricious. 'A mandate by Congress that a "fleeting expletive" can now be found indecent will create a vast chilling effect on broadcast speech, the advocacy group Center for Democracy and Technology claims. CDT points out that prior to this bill and the FCC's policy change, the FCC exercised discretion in determining which utterances were indecent, and consistently found that one-time uses of curse words were not indecent.'"

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  1. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shit.

    1. Re:Obligatory by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Funny

      BEEEEP You are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute.

  2. The evil CDT by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will someone please think about the children!! It would be just horrible, evil and wrong for children to naughty words! Why, it might psychologically damage them for life! The horror!

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    1. Re:The evil CDT by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 3, Funny

      And that's where the parental duty of discipline comes in. Never underestimate the corrective powers of a sock full of quarters.

    2. Re:The evil CDT by brunascle · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's not at all appropriate to just throw around genitals
      i agree 100%

      oh cmon, you couldve have typed that without knowing it would be taken out of context.
    3. Re:The evil CDT by fohat · · Score: 4, Funny

      I would like to see a fine applied to your post. I have a big problem with your use of the integer "N" because it's the first letter of one of the forbidden words. Please use a more neutral integer in the future; say, "X".

      Oh wait you can't use X either...

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    4. Re:The evil CDT by mrami · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm not exactly sure what rap fans use in place of it when they're shouting at each other,


      "Slashdot readin', pasty-ass motherfucker!"


      Or maybe that's just what they say to me...

    5. Re:The evil CDT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      If "fuck" were to be removed from speech due to casual use there would inevitably be something new invented to take its place.

      There's already something far more derogatory available: it's spelled C-o-n-g-r-e-s-s-m-a-n

    6. Re:The evil CDT by IAmTheDave · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well that's just great. According to South Park, not only do "curse words" or "words that are cursed" bring about horrors such as puking up your own innards, but Canada is evil and an ensuing war with Canada brings forth the apocalypse.

      So now, as a double whammy, we've got the evil Canadians throwing around "fuck" like it's candy.

      Guess I should start making peace with God soon...

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    7. Re:The evil CDT by Torvaun · · Score: 3, Funny

      >Perhaps some people have uncontrolled mental imagery; I know I do. When someone says "fuck off" I >see a guy masturbating. When someone says "bullshit" I see a cowpie. I don't like those mental >images, but it's something you learn to deal with I guess.

      Hmm. Goatse!

      Yes, I am a jerk.

      P.S. Almost said "Yes, I am an asshole." but I figured Goatse covered that. Or uncovered it, as the case may be.

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    8. Re:The evil CDT by bky1701 · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, he is wrong. Theres always the US Senate.

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  3. Need we say more? by truthsearch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well [BEEP] that!

    Fortunately, due to my 15 second delay, I was able to self-censor.

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    1. Re:Need we say more? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Fortunately, due to my 15 second delay, I was able to self-censor. I don't have a fucking delay you insensitive clod!
  4. Fucking Republicans... by R2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, wait...

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  5. Re:Of course by shma · · Score: 2, Funny

    On behalf of Dick Cheney, go fuck yourself.

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  6. Re:So leave ... by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 2, Funny

    btw i find it absolutely fucking histerical that you censored the work "fucking" in your post. unbeleivable! You've already surrended.

  7. The seven words you cannot say on televsion... by thebdj · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shit
    Piss
    Fuck
    Cunt
    Cocksucker
    Motherfucker
    Tits

    These marvelous words brought to you by George Carlin.

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