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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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  1. Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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  2. Re:I wouldn't mind this! by fastest+fascist · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. No defense against ASCII Art! by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun by Cairnarvon · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun by redhog · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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