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FCC Supreme Court Cher Bono Richie Department of Justice censorship – Peerflow http://www.peerflow.net Open participation through a fast Internet Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:03:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Cher and the FCC and the Supremes http://www.peerflow.net/2007/11/cher-and-the-fc.html Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:03:17 +0000 http://www.peerflow.net/2007/11/cher-and-the-fc.html CurseWordSymbols.jpg The U.S. Dept. of Justice is trying to take the FCC swearing case all the way to the Supreme Court, after an appeals court slapped it down:
In a stinging rebuke, the Second Circuit ruled that the FCC had not produced “any evidence that suggests that a fleeting expletive is harmful.”

Free Speech Under Attack in DC – Part III Center for Creative Voices in Media Blog, 1 Nov 2007

Apparently the current U.S. administration doesn’t believe in someone having to prove “market failure” when it comes to words.

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