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  • Scalia on "foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood"

    In a close vote, the Supreme Court upholds, for now, the FCC's power to regulate the fleeting use of an expletive.
  • What the New FCC Chairman Must Do

  • Ocho Cinco and you

    Finally, some good news about the NFL Network: You don't have it so you'll miss the Bengals-Steelers game, just like Chad Johnson.
  • Catching Comcast

    A new Net neutrality test lets you spy on Comcast -- to see if it's spying on you!
  • Janet Jackson's boob freed

    A federal appeals court throws out CBS's $550,000 fine for the Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction."
  • Comcast agrees to lift BitTorrent block

    Facing a threat of regulation, the ISP makes nice with a file-trading protocol.
  • Google wins by losing wireless auction to Verizon

    The search company saves the wireless Internet for its apps, but it doesn't have to actually run a network.
  • Will the FCC disrupt Comcast's network disruption?

    Maybe. But also maybe not.
  • FCC can't stop Diane Keaton's TV F-bomb

    A court ruling from last year has prevented the government from fining broadcasters that air "fleeting instances" of profanity.
  • The FCC examines Comcast's traffic-blocking plan

    Will the broadband company face a stiff fine for interrupting customers' file-trading sessions?
  • FCC votes to allow further media consolidation

    Despite an outcry from the public and Congress, the FCC moves ahead with a controversial decision.
  • FCC commissioner Michael Copps vs. "Big Media"

    FCC chairman Kevin Martin wants to relax rules on how many media outlets one company can own in one market. Democratic commissioner Copps wants to rally the public to stop media consolidation.
  • Verizon sues to block an open wireless Internet

    The FCC can't force carriers to let customers use any hardware and software on the 700 MHz wireless airwaves, the company says.
  • Google's open-wireless bid: FCC decision Tuesday

    The search company is pushing to allow us to do whatever we want on the wireless Internet. Will Google's first big lobbying effort pay off?
  • Tech week in review: Intel joins cheap laptop drive

    The chipmaker joins the $100 laptop foundation. Plus: Will the FCC allow open access for radio spectrum?
  • HornyManatee.com

    "Late Night" builds it; fans flock.
  • First Justice, now the FCC: No NSA investigation

    The Federal Communications Commission says it can't investigate possible violations of the federal Communications Act.
  • Sex, drugs and cable TV

    Under pressure from the FCC, cable companies will offer a "family-choice" package. But will anyone pay for TV without "South Park" and "Sex and the City"?
  • Talk about obscenity

    Congress' latest idiotic effort to make the airwaves "decent" explains why Americans favor lawmakers about as much as telemarketers and drunken drivers.
  • The FCC's cable crackdown

    The indecency war is ready to heat up -- and Tony Soprano, Jon Stewart and the "South Park" kids better watch their mouths.
  • Indecency wars

    Activists who beat back the FCC on media consolidation are dismayed to find former allies leading an unprecedented effort to restrict radio and TV content.
  • The tightening grip on PBS

    A staff shakeup is taking the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the direction of "conservative appeasement," says one watchdog.
  • The FCC's new "decency" chief

    Kevin Martin has close ties to the Bush White House, and an agenda to the right of Michael Powell's when it comes to "crude" programming.
  • He said "penis"!

    Warning: The way a right-wing "parents" group is wasting the FCC's time might just make you (dare we say it?) "pissed."
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