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Seven Dirty Words Power To Regulate
1,211 words... f the dominant culture's inevitable efforts to force those groups who do not share its mores to conform to it's way of thinking, acting, and speaking. " (Gunther, 1991) Therefore, the Supreme Court looked upon Carlin's monologue as indecent but not obscene. The FCC was given the power to regulate the airwaves and prohibit broadcasters from promoting "indecent" material over the radio. After the Pacifica case the FCC has also extended the ban of indecent as well as obscene materials to 24 hou...
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Seven Dirty Words First Amendment Rights
2,437 wordsHow George Carlin's Filthy Words Gave the Government the Power to Regulate What We Hear on the Radio The FCC v. Pacifica Foundation: GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS ON RADIO BROADCASTING In 1978 a radio station owned by Pacifica Foundation Broadcasting out of New York City was doing a program on contemporary attitudes toward the use of language. This broadcast occurred on a mid-afternoon weekday. Immediately before the broadcast the station announced a disclaimer telling listeners that the program would ...
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Seven Dirty Words First Amendment Rights
2,444 wordsGOVERNMENT REGULATIONS ON RADIO BROADCASTING Essay, Research GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS ON RADIO BROADCASTING In 1978 a radio station owned by Pacifica Foundation Broadcasting out of New York City was doing a program on contemporary attitudes toward the use of language. This broadcast occurred on a mid-afternoon weekday. Immediately before the broadcast the station announced a disclaimer telling listeners that the program would include " sensitive language which might be regarded as offensive t...
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Seven Dirty Words Freedom Of Expression
2,522 wordsCensorship, what is it, is it a problem, is it constitutional? These are some of the questions I am going to answer in this paper. I am going to prove to you that censorship is a bad thing, and interpreting the words of the president of this great country, he agrees also. Howard Zinn, in my mind one of the greatest historians ever, makes a great point in his novel A People s History of the United States, he states that history is retold in the eyes of the victor. Meaning that history is always t...
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Seven Dirty Words Communications Decency Act
2,659 wordsReno v. ACLU The conflict began on February 8, 1996, when President Clinton signed the CDA law and ACLU, along with EPIC and eighteen other plaintiffs, immediately filed its legal challenge. ACLU v. Reno represents the first legal challenge to censorship provisions of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). The CDA makes it a crime, punishable by up to two years in jail and / or a $ 250, 000 fine, for anyone to engage in speech that is? indecent? or? patently offensive? on computer networks if the...
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