Congress boosting indeceny fines?
Apparently feeling pressure from the puritans back home, congress is now moving to raise indecenty fines imposed by the Federal Censorship (whoops, I meant to say Communication) Commission. You can read about it by clicking the link below, the story is on Yahoo from AP.
The max fine would go to $500,000 per occurance. Too bad they can't have fines like that for bad reality tv, but if that were the case all the networks would be bankrupt. I personally think fines that large are at times excessive, especially when the law regarding obscenity is very vague, and when broadcasters have asked for clearer direction (even going so far as to ask if they aired something specific would it be ok) from the FCC and received absolutely no help at all. Yikes!
Read the story here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=716&e=7&u=/ap/20050203/ap_on_go_co/congress_indecency
The max fine would go to $500,000 per occurance. Too bad they can't have fines like that for bad reality tv, but if that were the case all the networks would be bankrupt. I personally think fines that large are at times excessive, especially when the law regarding obscenity is very vague, and when broadcasters have asked for clearer direction (even going so far as to ask if they aired something specific would it be ok) from the FCC and received absolutely no help at all. Yikes!
Read the story here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=716&e=7&u=/ap/20050203/ap_on_go_co/congress_indecency
posted by bigalsbeans at 8:00 PM
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