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Seuss
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FCC looking for vulgar language
#5849976 - 07/12/06 06:36 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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This is such fucking bullshit. I typically refrain from using vulgarities, but no fucking more. The assholes can suck my cock if they think I am going to roll over and let them jam censorship up my ass. Doesn't the US government have something better to fuck with than worry about what the crowd at a live sporting event might be saying. Whatever happened to that fucking search for the bin laden cunt. Asshole do-gooders that shit golden turds. It is fine for the president to fucking lie to the people and start a war, but I get pounded in the ass by the FCC if my television station broadcasts a word that somebody else finds fucking offensive. How about this for a change... if somebody doesn't want listen to vulgarities, how about asking them turn off the fucking sound or change the damned channel. Why must I suffer to protect their fucking fragile feelings? And while we are on the subject, why the fuck hasn't FOX news been fined for forcing me to listen to that Ann Coultier cunt. She is much more offensive than any fucking word I can speak. So fucking much for freedom of speech... assholes! If they want decency, then send them to China and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060712/en_nm/media_indecency_dc_1:
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WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - In its continuing crackdown on on-air profanity, the FCC has requested numerous tapes from broadcasters that might include vulgar remarks from unruly spectators, coaches and athletes at live sporting events, industry sources said.
Tapes requested by the commission include live broadcasts of football games and NASCAR races where the participants or the crowds let loose with an expletive. While commission officials refused to talk about its requests, one broadcast company executive said the commission had asked for 30 tapes of live sports and news programs.
"It looks like they want to end live broadcast TV," said one executive, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity. "We already know that they aren't afraid to go after news."
NO SLIPS ALLOWED
While live programming always has been problematic for broadcasters, it has become even more difficult under tougher commission rules approved in 2004. The new rules found that virtually any use of certain expletives will be considered profane and indecent, even if it is a slip of the tongue. In a March decision, the FCC found that the CBS news program "The Early Show" violated its indecency rules because of a profane slip-up but did not issue a fine because the incident occurred before the new rules were instituted.
Live sports -- amateur, college and professional -- have long been a broadcast programming staple. Broadcasters have spent enormous amounts of money and energy to come up with ways to give audiences a better feel for the action. As broadcasters vie for viewers, technical advances that include such things as on-field microphones and in-car cameras have become as important as the announcers.
"I don't know how they are going to rule, but they asked us for tapes with a specific emphasis on crowd noise," said another TV executive, who also requested anonymity. "If some bozo in the crowd calls the ref an asshole, the commission is asking for a copy of the tape."
A live, on-field event -- albeit when no athletes were on the field -- during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, when Janet Jackson's breast was accidentally bared, helped reignite Washington's interest in the indecency issue. Since then there has been a highly charged fight at the commission about just how far the commission can go in restricting broadcasts.
OPINION DIVIDED
Broadcasters last week split over whether the commission should be allowed to get one of the premier indecency cases back from the federal court in New York.
In a series of motions filed Friday in federal court in New York, Fox and its affiliate group, CBS and NBC opposed an attempt this week by the FCC to get a key indecency case back from the court.
The commission this month asked the same federal court for more time to consider affiliates' arguments that the agency erred in March when it decided variations of the words "fuck" and "shit" likely are to be indecent whenever broadcast, even if the words are uttered accidentally.
A delay would let affiliates contest the decisions before the commission. The FCC contends that this is a necessary step before arguing in court. The agency said ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates backed its request.
Under federal court rulings and commission rules, material is indecent if it "in context, depicts or describes sexual or excretory activities or organs in a patently offensive manner as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium." Indecent speech can be aired safely between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Under a new law approved by Congress and signed by President Bush, broadcasters face fines of as much as $325,000 per violation, up from a previous maximum of $32,500.
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Re: FCC looking for vulgar language [Re: Seuss]
#5850706 - 07/12/06 12:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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"Under a new law approved by Congress and signed by President Bush, broadcasters face fines of as much as $325,000 per violation, up from a previous maximum of $32,500."
A third of a million fine for one bad word? No fucking way...
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barfightlard
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Re: FCC looking for vulgar language [Re: Seuss]
#5850745 - 07/12/06 12:52 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just get every crowd to start new chants like "FUCK THE FCC"
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Re: FCC looking for vulgar language [Re: Seuss]
#5850757 - 07/12/06 12:56 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's nice to know that the Bush administration is tackling dangerous problems like this. I'm sure it has nothing to do with his dismal approval ratings.
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Re: FCC looking for vulgar language [Re: Silversoul]
#5850770 - 07/12/06 01:03 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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It can't. He doesn't pay attention to them.
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Re: FCC looking for vulgar language [Re: barfightlard]
#5850776 - 07/12/06 01:05 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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"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 piss And they’ll make you call fellatio a trouser friendly kiss
It’s the plain situation! There will be 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!..."
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Re: FCC looking for vulgar language [Re: Seuss]
#5850830 - 07/12/06 01:26 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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It is fine for the president to fucking lie to the people and start a war
bush never lied, just ask phred
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Hank, FTW
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Re: FCC looking for vulgar language [Re: RosettaStoned]
#5850902 - 07/12/06 01:50 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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This is just bullshit, I have a feeling that the internet threw a real curve ball into the plans of the globalists. A media they could not control, it will only be a matter of time before the Internet is regulated like all other media.
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Re: FCC looking for vulgar language [Re: Hank, FTW]
#5851085 - 07/12/06 02:50 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The U.S. does control the Internet, it owns the root servers.
U.S. retains control of Internet root servers From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! July 3, 2005
The United States decided on Friday to indefinitely retain control the 13 root servers that direct all internet traffic to the right locations. This decision drew concern from foreign officials who would rather see an international group such as ICANN oversee the control of the servers.
David Gross, a U.S. ambassador and the coordinator for international communications and information policies of the US State Department, insists that the announcement was not related to U.N. discussions. He also said other countries should see the move as positive because "uncertainty is not something that we think is in the United States' interest or the world's interest."
This decision reverses a statement made by the United States in 1998 in which they said would hand power over to ICANN after meeting a number of set conditions. A spokesman said that the declaration was in response to growing security threats and global communications and to the fact that commerce is becoming more reliant on the Internet.
"There have been strong opinions that essentially allowing the United States alone to check this process is not right given the nature of the internet today," said Masahiko Fujimoto of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, whom also said the decision is likely to alienate many in the international community. A worst-case scenario could see countries refusing to accept U.S. control of the root servers leading to a separate set of networks.
This means that people typing the same URL in different locations could see an entirely different website in their browsers. This announcement came several weeks before a U.N. panel releases a report on Internet governance which addresses issues including control of root servers.
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Re: FCC looking for vulgar language [Re: Seuss]
#5851159 - 07/12/06 03:12 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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So when are they going to ban curse words from the internet because some child might see it?
Every time to curse a fine gets assigned to your IP address and charged directly to your ISP who hands it down to your monthly bill. Wonder how far we are from that?
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