Comments on: Swearing Off Decency? Court Strikes Down FCC Policy On Profanity http://www.frcblog.com/2007/06/swearing-off-decency-court-strikes-down-fcc-policy-on-profanity/ The Blog of Family Research Council Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:28:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Suricou Raven http://www.frcblog.com/2007/06/swearing-off-decency-court-strikes-down-fcc-policy-on-profanity/comment-page-1/#comment-473 Suricou Raven Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:25:20 +0000 http://new.frcblog.agathongroup.com/?p=303#comment-473 You didn't quite understand the new ruleing. The court didn't say the FCC could or couldn't prohibit specific words - only that its policies were far to vague and subject to interpretation or abuse. All the FCC needs to do is write some perfectly clear rules. Ones that are sufficiently unambiguous that the FCC cant let a violation slide due to its producers political connections, or clamp down hard on a minor offense because those in power object to the program. You didn’t quite understand the new ruleing. The court didn’t say the FCC could or couldn’t prohibit specific words – only that its policies were far to vague and subject to interpretation or abuse.

All the FCC needs to do is write some perfectly clear rules. Ones that are sufficiently unambiguous that the FCC cant let a violation slide due to its producers political connections, or clamp down hard on a minor offense because those in power object to the program.

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