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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Look at it as giving away a valuable resource for free. Compare to the recent cell phone spectrum auctions--licenses for spectrum are quite valuable, even more so when there were no alternatives.
And it's not really promotion; rather, it's certain limited claims to direct the use of the resource: no indecency and equal time rights for politicians. Apparently few stations feel that the tradeoff isn't worth it and have turned in their licenses and moved to cable.
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OK, so now at least I understand the rationale, but I still don't agree with it, because at its most basic level we have the G essentially deciding what can and cannot be said. Out of curiousity, does the law distinguish between visual indecency/obsenity and oral/written? I wouldn't regulate any of them, but there seems to be a difference between seeing two people screw and hearing or reading a description of it.
