http://www.metafilter.com/tags/federalcommunicationscommission Posts tagged with 'federalcommunicationscommission' at MetaFilter. Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:06:46 -0800 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:06:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/30724/FCC%2Dtrying%2Dto%2Dban%2Dthe%2Dword%2Dfuck <a href="http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=438405&amp;section=news">Your tax dollars at work.</a> <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040113.wubadwords13/BNStory/Front/">The Republican congress</a> and <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=1&u=/nm/media_indecency_fcc_dc">the FCC</a>, who evidently have <a href="http://www.iwantmedia.com/consolidation.html">nothing</a> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12451">better</a> <a href="http://www.clearchannelsucks.org/">to</a> <a href="http://www.janda.org/b20/News%20articles/vastwastland.htm">do</a>, want to waste time banning the word <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fuck&r=67">fuck</a> from all radio and broadcast television. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.30724 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:06:46 -0800 censorship fcc federalcommunicationscommission fuck johnnydark http://www.metafilter.com/28821/Effing%2DCC <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/07/bono.fcc.ap/">This is really, really f------ brilliant.</a> The <a href="http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-03-3045A1.pdf">FCC says </a>the f-word is OK on network TV, as long as it doesn't refer to the sexual act. Naturally, <a href="https://www.parentstv.org/actionalert/actiongoldenglobes.asp">some groups </a> don't like dirty talk. Is this a sea change in the level of discourse, or is the FCC finally acknowledging that it's useless to protect kids from <a href="http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.htm">our favorite four-letter word? </a> (Second link is a .pdf file.) tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.28821 Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:37:47 -0800 airwaves broadcast fcc federalcommunicationscommission freespeech fuck fword f-word sixpack