Republican state lawmakers in Arizona are proposing legislation requiring teachers to limit their words to comply with the Federal Communications Commission standards for on-air speech. Under the law a teacher could be fired after a third offense. From The Republic , February 12, 2012, by Alia Beard Rau. Full story
Hiding out with a two-year jail sentence hanging over his head and vigilantes vowing to track him down, the editor of Indonesia’s defunct version of Playboy magazine, Erwin Arnada, insists he was never in the pornography business. The New York Times September 3, 2010 By Aubrey Belford JAKARTA —The men’s magazine, which began publication in 2006, was relatively tame, and conspicuously free of nudity. But faced with violent protests by hard-line Muslim groups, it soon
In a case pitting Fox television against the Federal Communication Commission, federal appeals judges peppered government lawyers with questions about the constitutionality of FCC rules aimed at indecency. -DB Variety January 13, 2010 By Ted Johnson The broadcast networks opened the latest chapter in their long-fought challenge to the FCC’s indecency enforcement on Wednesday, with Fox attorneys arguing to a federal appeals court that the government’s practices stifle free speech and violate the First Amendment.