[BC] FCC commissioner says "we may have gone too far" on indecency

[Sid Schweiger]

>From AllAccess:

FCC Commissioner JONATHAN ADELSTEIN, the only Commissioner to dissent in part from the indecency rulings earlier this year, told the PROGRESS AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION in ASPEN earlier this week that the flurry of rulings "dangerously expands the scope of indecency and profanity law without first attempting to determine whether we are applying the appropriate contemporary community standards." 

BROADCASTING AND CABLE reports that ADELSTEIN, who agreed with the rest of the Commissioners that "the government has a legitimate interest in protecting children from indecent and overly commercial content," fretted that the Omnibus order does not provide broadcasters with a "coherent and principled framework" and that the overreaching may jeopardize the ability of the FCC to do any regulation of indecency ("We may forever lose the ability to prevent the airing of indecent material, barring an unlikely constitutional amendment setting limits on the First Amendment").

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Sid Schweiger
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