Posted on 04/22/2011 4:14:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a court ruling that greatly diminished the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) ability to police the airwaves for indecency.
Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal filed a certiorari petition ahead of Thursday's deadline after previously filing for two extensions. The administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals decision that struck down the FCC's indecency policy last July.
The court ruled that the FCC's policy against fleeting expletives on live television, instituted in 2004 after U2 frontman Bono used an expletive during the 2003 Golden Globes, was unconstitutionally vague and resulted in self-censorship by broadcasters wary of facing record fines.
The FCC subsequently acknowledged the court's ruling would likely prevent the commission from enforcing its indecency policy even in cases of scripted rather than fleeting profanity or nudity.
That prediction came to fruition in January when the same court tossed the commission's record $1.4 million fine leveled against 52 ABC affiliates for airing a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue" that contained a scene featuring actress Charlotte Ross nude.
Katyal enclosed a DVD of the episode with the petition.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
This is less of an issue now that “Two and Half Men” is out of production. ;’)
Net neutrality is ‘wicked,’ evangelical minister says
By Sara Jerome
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/157397-net-neutrality-is-wicked-evangelical-minister-says-
First they came for the expletives, and I didn’t like hearing them, so I didn’t speak out. Then they came for the gratuitous sexual content, and I didn’t like seeing it on TV, so I didn’t speak out. Then they came for the graphic violence and I didn’t like seeing that, so I didn’t speak out. Then they came for the political speech, but by that time all the networks had gone out of business, and there was no way for anyone to speak out for me.
Name one TV show or movie, that has been made better by the spurious use of the "F" bomb.
I have a problem with it in public, including the public airways and I think it cheapens society. You are free to indulge in whatever floats your boat in this country, but I shouldn't have it stuck in my face in public.
http://www.google.com/#q=nypd+Charlotte+Ross&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=9e3eea5a43277d52&hl=en ought to give you a pretty good idea of who Charlotte Ross is and what she’s about and is she nekkid or what ~ and IS SHE EVER GUILTY!!!!!
:’)
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