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The Right to Decency

tnorth Wrote: Jul 18, 2012 9:16 AM

This is an absolutely superb article. The author is 100% accurate as to the law, facts, and all common sense aspects of the issue. There is nothing in this article that any person can sanely dispel. I and all others have an absolute right to decency and no one gets to dictate otherwise for us. Besides, who can argue with treating other humans with common decency? Only those who are inclined to violence, which indecency is a form of

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The Right to Decency

*Note - Morgan Bennett is a co-author.

The U. S. Supreme Court decision on broadcast indecency in FCC v. Fox Television, Inc. , (June 21, 2012) (“Fox II”), has reignited an important debate: whether TV networks have a right to distribute indecent material into our homes without our consent. The U. S. Congress prohibited such activity and the high Court upheld that prohibition decades ago. To obtain their licenses to broadcast, networks pledge to act in the “public interest,” but for years, they have abandoned that pledge to promote their own morbid interest in indecency.

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