Another small victory for liberty
It isn’t, yet, a court decision to stop the FCC moral police from restricting the freedom of speech. But it set some limits on the FCC’s attempts to gain further control over the content broadcast under the names of decency and violence:
NEW YORK, June 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday overruled federal regulators who decided that expletives uttered on broadcast television violated decency standards, a major victory for TV networks.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, in a divided decision, said that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was "arbitrary and capricious" in setting a new standard for defining indecency.
The court sent the matter back to the commission for further proceedings to clarify its indecency policy. The FCC, which said it was still studying the opinion, could decide to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the appeals court.
It is time to remind the FCC that their role should have been limited to administration of the public air-waves, not for the content broadcasted on them.
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