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- QST, February 1989, page 9 =
- It is reasonable to assume that the same standard applies to us. Section
- 97.119 as presently written prohibits the transmission of communications
- containing obscene, indecent, or profane words, language, or meaning, so no
- new rule is necessary, it is simply a question of the extent to which the
- Commission will enforce the existing one.
- No doubt there will be court tests of the new broadcasting rule. The FCC had
- been seeking to avoid a First Amendment confrontation, what Congress has told
- the Commission, in effect, is to abandon caution and to enforce its standards
- across the board.
- We can only hope tha FCC will be as responsive to Congressional will on
- another matter, 220 MHz. = David Sumner, K1ZZ +
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