President George W. Bush on Thursday signed into law legislation that raises fines tenfold on radio and television broadcasters that violate U.S. decency standards by airing extensive profanity or sexual content.
The new law, which boosts fines to as much as $325,000 per violation from $32,500, could help congressional Republicans woo conservatives in a tough election year as they have faced ebbing support from key core constituencies.
The Christian Coalition had placed legislation to increase the fines as the No. 5 item on its 2006 legislative agenda. The new law also caps any continuing violations from an incident at $3 million.
The drive for the higher fines came when pop singer Justin Timberlake ripped off part of duet partner Janet Jackson's costume and briefly exposed her breast during the 2004 Super Bowl football halftime entertainment show aired on national television.
This is just ridiculous. With all of the problems facing our country why would anybody waste their time promoting more censorship?
"The Christian Coalition had placed legislation to increase the fines as the No. 5 item on its 2006 legislative agenda." Oh. I guess Bush is just trying to please his masters again.
Well when does this thing start taking effect? I mean we can still cuss on the internet, right? I don't think I can make my highly sophisticated points without using foul language. I only attended college for a year and a half, I need curse words to flesh out my lack of vocabulary.
Besides I think censorship is f**king stupid! And if these f**king a**holes think they can control what comes out of my mouth they can just kiss my m***** f**king a**!
D***, too late.
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