ACLU, DGA, AFTRA Gang Up on FCC
John Eggerton reports at Broadcasting & Cable:
The American Civil Liberties Union, flanked by unions representing directors and actors, told the Supreme Court the Federal Communications Commission has no business regulating any speech short of outright obscenity.
The ACLU — joined by the Directors Guild of America, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and several others — asked the Supreme Court to rethink the FCC’s entire indecency-enforcement regime, saying, “No agency should be given such power under the constitution.”
The court is currently hearing the FCC’s challenge to a lower-court ruling overturning the FCC’s decision to find Fox TV stations in violation of indecency rules for airing swearing on a Billboard Awards show.