Only 40 years too late, but better late than never. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fcc-indecency-20100714,0,5995911.story
so can I expect to see CSI:Miami actually showing dead strippers naked, while going to commercial with Horatio saying something like "that (expletive adjective) (racial epithet) (sexual epithet) really did a job on that (expletive adjective) (racial epithet) (derogatory feminine slang)", and coming back from commercial with a recreation of Marisa Tomei/Philip Seymour Hoffman from Before Devil Knows You're Dead, all on at 8 o'clock on a Sunday night?
At the Supreme Court's behest: "But the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling was focused on the way the FCC enacted its tougher policy and sent the case back to the New York court to decide the broader issue of the constitutionality of the ban on profanity on the broadcast airwaves." Not sure what that means. Does the Supreme Court ask lower courts to decide things and then take the case again to decide if they agree with that the lower court decided?
The motherfucking supreme court just likes to fuck with the fucking appeals court, make them rule and then fucking overturn the fuckers. Extra fucking profanity added to fucking stay on topic. barfo
Two points. SCOTUS typically doesn't make broad sweeping decisions. Even Brown v. Board of Education, they demanded that segregation in schools be ended "with all due haste". Yeah, things like abortion get brought to the Court every so often, not ultimately to overturn it but to fine tune what's in govt.'s purview. This decision only affects things like the wardrobe malfunction and people on awards shows saying words that would otherwise be bleeped. It doesn't at all permit the showing of uncut R rated films.
Actually the ruling says that networks can't be held responsible for people cussing unexpectedly during live broadcasts. Although I would love to see the ruling fully overturned (never happen), but that has more to do with my feelings that the Government shouldn't try to regulate the media or speech in any way.
It sets a precedent for further legal action should those things be restricted in the future. FCC, welcome to the 19th century. I can think of no government entity, other than Homeland Security of course, that is more anti-American in it's mission and it's practice.
