I haven’t had time to post lately, but now let me return to my series of posts discussing the background of the Supreme Court’s “fleeting expletives” case from last month, FCC v. Fox Television Stations. Click here to see the whole string of posts, including this one, on a single page, in chronological order. (As usual, click here to watch George Carlin’s monologue if you haven’t done so already!)
In past posts, we’ve seen the evolution of the FCC’s policy on regulating expletives. Recall that the FCC’s statute, the Communications Act of 1934, has two sections that are somewhat in tension. First, we have the no-censorship provision, now codified at 47 U.S.C.