Court halts enforcement of indecency rule
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The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled in Alliance for Community Media v. FCC that the agency need not enforce rules mandating cable operators group all indecent programming on a leased access channel, that could be blocked unless a subscriber provided a written request for access. These rules were made to implement the Cable Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, enacted to limit child viewership of indecent programming. Various public interest groups had argued the rules allowed private parties to make content-based rules.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1993
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Government enjoined from enforcing indecency law
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A panel of federal judges in Philadelphia found in ACLU v. Reno that the Communications Decency Act, passed as part of the Telecommunications Reform Act, was unconstitutional as a violation of the First Amendment. The law barred obscene and indecent speech on the internet and imposed criminal liability on computer service providers that allow access to such information. The panel found the statute to be vague and overbroad and noted that speech on the Internet was particularly ill-suited to government regulation.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1996
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Groups challenge FCC indecency penalties
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Action for Children's Television v. FCC was filed by over 20 parties in the US District Court of DC in Feb 1993. The parties are claiming the FCC has been enforcing its rules regulating indecent speech unconstitutionally. The rules do not permit broadcasters judicial review of fines levied against them by the FCC unless they refuse to pay or the commission sues to collect. Those filing the claim against the FCC argue this lack of review constitutes unfair censorship.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1993
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