F**, er, FCC wants to close F-word loophole

[Rguess21]

The agency defines as indecent speech that depicts or describes sexual organs or activities, and a broadcast must be "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium."

The FCC staff had determined that Bono used as an adjective or expletive to emphasize an exclamation and while it may have been crude and offensive, it "did not describe sexual or excretory organs or activities."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040114/media_nm/media_indecency_fcc_dc_3

[jillamanda]

......jeez, that link took forever to load, I was absolutely dying to know what FCC stood for........

[jillamanda]

:sure: ...and they said all that without using the word 'fuck'......

[jillamanda]

It's not quite the same thing, but it seemed an appropriate place to post this...........


Fach street called too similar to profanity
Associated Press
Feb. 3, 2004 05:25 PM


CAMBRIDGE, Ont. - A slip of the tongue could have his street's new name turned into something quite unpleasant, says a soon-to-be resident of Arthur Fach Drive.
Gray Joynt, who will be moving to Cambridge in June, points out that the street name could have an unfortunate mispronunciation - and he will be asking city council to change it.
"I am sure one recognizes that the name has certain unpleasant connotations," Joynt wrote in a letter to council.
Arthur Fach (pronounced Fawk) was one of Cambridge's veterans of the First World War. He was wounded in Europe and died at a veterans hospital in Canada.
It's a new city policy to name streets for war veterans.
The houses along Arthur Fach Drive are under construction.
"We bought the house when the street was still unnamed and, subsequently, it was given this street name," Joynt, who lives near Windsor, said Tuesday.
"We don't want to take anything away from this man's memory, or from his family, but perhaps there is a more suitable way to remember his contributions."
Joynt, who will appear before city council's general committee on Feb. 23, suggests that naming a park for Fach might be more fitting.
"This is a case where there are certain sensitivities ... and I think it's easier to change the name before people live on the street."
His new address has already been the subject of some joking, Joynt said.
"There's been ridicule and laughter. People don't understand the history, so it's like a titillating joke."
Arthur Fach's family doesn't agree.
"My (great) uncle died for this country at a very young age - gave his life," Susan Toffner wrote in a letter to council. "What an insult to name a street after him and then revoke that honor."



......mind you, I think 'Gray Joynt' has a nerve complaining about someone else's name........


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