IPtelligentsia Podcast: Senate Indecency Hearings (Part 2 of 3)

By Andrew Raff on January 22, 2006 11:50 PM

On Thursday, the Senate Commerce Committee held hearings about regulating indecency on television. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and some of his colleagues seem intent on curbing broadcast and cablecast indecency by new legislation or some extra-legislative means, notwithstanding the fact that extending such regulations to cable and the internet would violate the First Amendment.

IPtelligentsia Podcast: Senate Decency Hearings (Part 2 of 3) (20:32 MP3)

Related links:
Decency: Full Committee Hearing (witness list and archived webcast)

FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978).
United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., 529 U.S. 803 (2000).
Reno v. Am. Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997).
Sable Communications v. FCC, 492 U.S. 115, 127 (1989).
Action for Children�s Television v. FCC, 58 F.3d 654 (1995)
FCC: Obscenity, Indeceny and Profanity

Previously:
Senate Indecency Hearings (Part 1 of 3)
Videoblog: Arrested Development Indecency Ruling

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