Offensive FCC upholds $1.4 million dollar fine for naked bottom on TV.

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The American Civil Liberties Union called the decision "paternalism at its worst," but the Federal Communications Commission today denied the ABC television network's appeal of a proposed $1.4 million dollar fine for an NYPD Blue program that briefly showed a woman's naked behind. And the agency went further in categorically defining the derrière as a sexual/excretory part of the human anatomy, rejecting ABC's argument that it has no sexual or excretory function.

"If we interpreted these terms in the narrow physiological sense advocated by ABC and the ABC Affiliates, the airwaves could be filled with naked buttocks and breasts during daytime and prime time hours :affraid: because they would be outside the scope of indecency regulation," the FCC declared.

On Friday, January 25, the Commission proposed the penalty against 51 ABC-owned or -affiliated stations for airing a February 2003 NYPD Blue scene—broadcast at 9 PM in the Central and Mountain Time zones—in which a pre-adolescent boy accidentally walks in on an older woman undressing in the bathroom. Viewers get a glance at the woman's naked behind before he backs out and apologizes.
The FCC declared the scene indecent "because it depicts sexual organs and excretory organs in a lewd and titillating way—specifically an adult woman's buttocks." ABC attorneys defended the show, arguing that buttocks do not constitute a sexual organ. But the FCC declared that this defense "runs counter to both case law and common sense," citing the agency's "two-pronged indecency analysis" defining "sexual or excretory organs or activities" as offensive.

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FCC is a criminal, rights violating institution! The scum should be shut down immediately!

Offensive FCC upholds $1.4 million dollar fine for naked bottom on TV.

Offensive FCC upholds $1.4 million dollar fine for naked bottom on TV.

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