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Supreme Court to Hear FCC Indecency Case
MachineShedFred writes "The Supreme Court of the United States has announced that it will be hearing the FCC's appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that the FCC has changed its policy on fleeting expletives without adequate explanation. It's now on the FCC to explain to the Supreme Court why its policy has changed. This is also the first time the Supreme Court has heard a major 'broadcast indecency' case in 30 years."
Common convention defines it. So does common sense. Your arguments, while seemingly nicely provocative, don't hold water. They're poor substitutes. The word 'fuck' is like an ejaculatory response. Quaint. So is the word 'shit'.
There are common criteria for measure of language. Linguistics falls as an argument against 'it's just all words'. It's meaning. Guns don't kill, people do. Fie.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
I have to strongly and completely disagree with one thing you said - incidental exposure can be irreparably damaging, depending on what the exposure is to. Not so much words, but every person has an abolute right to not be even "incidentally exposed" to some things,or have their child exposed to it, an obvious examples examples being frontal nudity or other explicit pornography.
By your reckoning, it makes no sense. The exclamatory use of obscenity is designed to provoke. Such provocation within the context of civil discourse has no place-- on the public airwaves where it's offensive, just like a fart in the face.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
Yea, America was better back then and you didn't have worry about you daughter marryin' an uppity nigger, or your son turnin' into a faggot. And your wife stayed in the god damn kitchen where she belonged. Yea those were the days alright, yes those were the good ol' days, when kids did what they were told and didn't question things like God and decency and good manners and why niggers need to get to the back of the bus. Before all this rock and roll came along and ruined it all...
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?