EPTWith any luck the FCC will become a pointless shadow of a government agency inside of a year. I don't think its likely that it'll crumble, but the court system has started on its way towards undermining the power the FCC has enjoyed during the Bush administration.
"We question whether the F.C.C.'s indecency test can survive First Amendment scrutiny," decided a panel of federal appeals judges, yesterday. "We find that the F.C.C.'s new policy regarding 'fleeting expletives' fails to provide a reasoned analysis justifying its departure from the agency's established practice." This is a step in the right direction.
FCC Chairman, Kevin J. Martin, would disagree with me. After the ruling yesterday, Martin remarked that if FCC rulings and regulations against obscenity, vulgarity, and so-called "fleeting expletives," were overruled by the courts "Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want."
This is a bad thing, how?
Listen, creeps: if you want a solution to obscenity, vulgarity, expletives, and other horrors of modern reality, I can offer a solution that doesn't trample all over the first amendment.
In three easy-to-remember steps:
1) Unplug your TV and throw it-- along with your PCs, laptops and cellphones-- into your favorite gas-powered lawnmower.
2) Be a true American hero and help the economy by stocking up on canned foods and bottled water.
3) Take a nose-dive into your nearest concrete bomb-shelter and seal the hatch until you grow the fuck up.
Source: F.C.C. Rebuffed by Court on Indecency Fines
