FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet Access

Aidtopia writes "FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is proposing auctioning off an unused part of the 25 MHz spectrum on the condition that the winner provide free wireless Internet access. The proposal sets coverage targets that ramp up to 95% of the population within 10 years. The catch: the provider must filter out obscene content." I wonder what definition of "obscene" the FCC would like to use.

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Misspelled

[oahazmatt]

FCC Pitches Free, Bowlderized Wireless Internet Access... The catch: the provider must filter out obscene content. You misspelled bastardized.

Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun

[ePhil_One]

I'll provide free internet and filter out everything that's not clear text and matching a library of 10 "known not obscene" words.

Only way to be sure

Leave it to the Republicans

[gambolt]

to place restrictions on private industry

Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun

[Wandering Wombat]

Admiral Jesus says "All aboard the Censor-Ship!"

Aaaaaaaaaand, cue Peter Griffin's 'Freakin FCC' song!

They will clean up all your talking in a menace such as this
They will make you take a tinkle when you want to take a p*ss
And they'll make you call fellatio a trouser-friendly kiss
It's the plain situation!
There's no negiotiation!
With the fellows at the freakin FCC!

They're as stuffy as the stuffiest of the special interest groups...
Make a joke about your bowels and they order in the troops
Any baby with a brain could tell them everybody poops!
Take a tip, take a lesson!
You'll never win by messin'
With the fellas at the freakin' FCC

And if you find yourself with some you sexy thing
You're gonna have to do her with your ding-a-ling
Cause you can't say penis!

So they sent this little warning they're prepared to do the worst
And they stuck it in your mailbox hoping you could be co-erced
I can think of quite another place they should have stuck it first!

They may just be neurotic
Or possible psychotic
They're the fellas at the freakin FCC!

Oblig. Family Guy

[ettlz]

The bloody song would take too long to type out, but I'll say them now, while we still have a chance:

• piss
• fellatio
• penis

Re:Possible power grab?

[QRDeNameland]

Doesn't the FCC have an equal time rule? They shouldn't be able to do this unless they they also open up a chunk of the spectrum only for porn.

Re:I wouldn't mind this!

[fastest fascist]

High-temperature female displays well-hydrated feline! Amazing pseudoadults with brobdignagian dorsal features! Well-matched pairs engaging in close contact!

Defined.

[jadin]

FCC Okays Nudity On TV If It's Alyson Hannigan

No defense against ASCII Art!

[bill_mcgonigle]

I bet I can make a raunchy ASCII Art out of your 10 words. :)

Bowlderized?

[ccady]

Bowlderized? Is that rock-solid censorship?

No need for a filter

[Moop11]

Just route all content through china.

Re:Possible power grab?

[moderatorrater]

They licensed Fox, does that count?

note: regular Fox, not Fox News.

I wonder what definition of "obscene" the FCC..

[Anonymous Coward]

" I wonder what definition of "obscene" the FCC would like to use. "

Err, hasn't obsene already been defined as "more than three fingers"???

Re:Obscenity has a clear meaning

[ChaoticLimbs]

So, we just need to make the porn videos, and then wait 2000 years and they'll be The Classics.

Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun

[unlametheweak]

Bad things are created by bad producers, who will only ever produce bad things. Good things are created by good producers, who will only ever produce good things. True. Slashdotters tend to be a cynical folk. In the end though banning obscene material can be very good for society; there will be no inadvertent or harmful attempts to look at or download religious materials for example and children will no longer be exposed to Fox News articles or anything said or written by Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh.

Hopefully the new rules will only allow content to be viewed that has sex as the major theme, because sex brings joy to the world. Among those primates whose primary social activity is sex (for example), there is very little social aggression. Sex and marijuana should be promoted by the new FCC regulations. Religion (which causes War, aggression, hallucinations and delusional thinking) will obviously be banned.

Finally the FCC is thinking progressively and will ban all these noted obscenities from the Internet.

Re:Wrong Wrong Wrong

[Gavin Scott]

Darn, and here I was thinking that they'd finally found a way to clean up the CB band :)

G.

Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun

[gyrogeerloose]

Slashdot needs a say what? mod option.

Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun

[Cairnarvon]

I like how you self-censored "piss" in a song about how bad censoring obscenity is.

Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun

[bcat24]

That's all well and good until someone sends you an email containing the word "fuck".

Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun

[redhog]

New RFC: Ip-over-ten-allowed-words:

Only the first eight words are used, the last two are used as out-of-bound signaling.

Data is sent three bits at a time, each bit-pattern denoted by one of the remaining eight words as described in the table below:

000 word1
001 word2
010 word3
011 word4
100 word5
101 word6
110 word7
111 word8

As long as there are any bits flowing, _any_ bit can be transmitted.

Re:Obscenity has a clear meaning

[pi_rules]

Sex is obscene

No, it's not.

You're doing it wrong.