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Originally posted by Astrocloud
Actually there are no guidelines by the FCC... but they can fine people for breaking them. Ironically they refuse to publish any clear guidelines because Michael Powell claims that it would somehow violate (and thus harm) the first amendment.
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you and i have had this debate before. There are no clear exact word for word guidelines, but there are guidelines even though they exist as ambiguous as they are.
I've spoken with MTV Legal, Rights and Clearances, and Standards of Broadcasting departments on this and they have a very hard time with it because there are no definitive words to work with. But that is where the FCC is smart, since language ever evloves and lives, slang and words ebb and flow and change over time. Words considered profane in the past, are no longer, and words not are now considered.
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