DRUDGE REPORT 2011® Supreme Court backs FCC: fleeting f-bombs can be punished - Ars Technica The Supreme Court ruled today on its first indecency case in 30 years. In a 5-4 decision (PDF), the justices supported the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sanctions against Fox for a pair of live Billboard Music Award broadcasts containing some, err, "colorful metaphors." The ruling supports the FCC's ability not only to ban floods of offensive words, but also to sanction broadcasters for "fleeting expletives" uttered at live events. What fleeting expletives were involved in this case? The FCC has long regulated dirty words on broadcast networks, especially during hours when children are likely to be listening. But the FCC was, for the next 25 years, understood to have taken a hard line against only this sort of routine cursing; an occasional one-off cuss, especially if delivered during live broadcasting, wasn't a problem. The policy changed in 2006, when the FCC formally decided to censure Fox over a couple of curse words uttered on the air four years before.
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Noonan v. Staples: “The most dangerous libel decision in decades” A long-established principle of libel law — truth is an absolute defense — has been called into question by a decision handed down last week by a federal appeals court in Boston. The court ruled in the case of Noonan v. Staples that truth published with “actual malice” gleaned from the context of the statement can give rise to a libel lawsuit. The case threatens to muzzle both news and entertainment media, and could be particularly dangerous to independent bloggers and small startup news organizations — neither of which is likely to have the legal resources a traditional established news organization has to battle libel suits. The case rose not from anything published in news media, but from a mass e-mail sent by Staples to about 1500 employees informing them, within the context of a reminder about policy compliance, that Alan S. It is with sincere regret that I must inform you of the termination of Alan Noonan’s employment with Staples. In a 1998 case, Shaari v.
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