PTC Pushes High Court to Take Indecency Case

[alp227]

Source: Broadcasting & Cable

The Parents Television council has filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court, urging it to agree to review the FCC's indecency enforcement policy.

The FCC and Obama administration have asked the High Court to review lower court rulings finding that regime is arbitrary and capricious and an unconstitutional chilling of speech.

PTC, whose complaints were partly responsible for the FCC's decision to pursue "fleeting" nudity and language, argues that broadcasting is still uniquely pervasive and uniquely accessible to children, which is the rationale the High Court used to uphold the FCC's indecency enforcement powers in the Pacifica case.

"A public broadcaster's fiduciary duty to use the public airwaves for the public good is not a relic of a gentler time," said PTC in its filing, in this case using "public" to apply to all broadcasters you use the airwaves.

Read more: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/468866-PTC_Pushes_High_Court_to_Take_Indecency_Case.php

[villager]

1. In other words, this puts them on the same side as the Hope/Change administration?

How come -- sadly -- I'm not the least surprised?

[SemperEadem]

2. newsflash, dude; NOTHING IS BROADCAST ANYMORE

remember a few years ago when you HAD to get the converter box when everything went digital? yeah... it's all run through cable now. If you don't have an antennae on the top of your television, but instead, run a coaxial cable out the back of it, you don't receive your signal through the airwaves. Idiots.

[RC]

3. News Flash for ya! I don't have cable and I have an antenna on top of my computer.

So I can watch Broadcast TV.

[SemperEadem]

5. I wasn't talking to you.

[RC]

7. Doesn't change the fact that they still do broadcast TV over the air.

[madrchsod]

4. public airwaves? i pay for my digital download from a satellite

[SemperEadem]

6. thank you. Exactly my point in my above post