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Yes I realized after posting, that most of it is probably self-censorship of Google, Facebook and co. But as I understand it public access television is quite
by smoe 6y ago
Yes I realized after posting, that most of it is probably self-censorship of Google, Facebook and co.
But as I understand it public access television is quite heavily regulated in terms of profanity and nudity and you will get fined for violations
https://www.fcc.gov/general/obscenity-indecency-and-profanity https://www.fcc.gov/general/obscenity-indecency-and-profanit...
E.g. The 2004 Superbowl where Janet Jackson flashed her nipples. Viacom paid out US$3.5 million to settle indecency complaints and got fined 500k which got later overruled because it was only "fleeting" indecency. It sounds to me that ruling could have gone either way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy#Legal_action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_sh...
But don't know how much of that extends to others forms of media than tv.