Topic: Swearing and Invective
AP News | 2009-04-28 21:36:42
<div id="subtitle">FCC ban on 'fleeting expletives' OK'd by Supreme Court _ but free-speech challenge still ahead</div><div><p>The Supreme Court deleted expletives left and right Tuesday in narrowly upholding a government policy that threatens broadcasters with fines over the use of even a single curse word on ...
AFP American Edition | 2009-04-28 17:00:43
<div><p>A narrowly-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that US regulators can impose fines on television and radio broadcasters for allowing "fleeting expletives" -- curse words used in passing -- to go out over the airwaves.</p><p>In a five-to-four ruling, the high court said the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency ...
AP News | 2009-04-28 15:49:02
<div id="subtitle">High court backs FCC airwave policing rule, punts on whether it violates free speech clause</div><div><p>The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Tuesday in favor of a government policy that threatens broadcasters with fines over the use of even a single curse word on live television, yet stopped ...
ZUMA Press Inc | 2009-03-12 16:12:51
''Apopalyptic'' by Mauro Perucchetti at the Halyon Gallery, London, 12th March 2009. Pictured - ''Im tired of this shit
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