if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
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As reported by The Best Magazine In The World, the Fox Network is fighting back against government nannies:
Fox is refusing to pay a $91,000 indecency fine imposed by the Federal Communications Commission for a 2003 broadcast of the now-defunct reality show Married by America in which the naughty bits of strippers at a bachelor party were blurry but inferrable. The FCC conceded that “the pixelation of the female strippers’ naked breasts and buttocks does render the material less explicit and graphic than it would have been in the absence of pixelation” but concluded that “the material is still sufficiently graphic and explicit to support an indecency finding.” It initially imposed a fine of $1.2 million—$7,000 for each of 169 Fox stations that aired the show—but later decided to fine just the 13 Fox stations in cities where viewers had complained. Fox nevertheless remains defiant, saying the FCC fine is “arbitrary and capricious, inconsistent with precedent, and patently unconstitutional.”
I can see the government censors peering at blurred images on a TV screen with magnifying glasses, saying, “Wait! There’s a buttcrack! Oh, wait...a boob! I saw a nipple! No...wait a minute...”
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And then there was last night’s South Park, with more breasts than you could count....
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Don’t laugh! I have all my mirrors pixelated in case I don’t like what I see.
Actually, there is no ‘in case’. It’s an absolute necessity.
Are we so sure? They didn’t think of trying the old ‘painted underwear’/prosthesis defence. It worked for NHK here.