Senate Committee Passes FCC Indecency Bill

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.'"

Comments

Obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

Shit.

Re:Obligatory

[Dachannien]

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

The evil CDT

[morgan_greywolf]

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!

Re:The evil CDT

[brunascle]

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.

Re:The evil CDT

[fohat]

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...