Technologie i telekomunikacja · 20/06/2007

FCC Increases Forfeiture Penalties for Obscene Broadcasts to $325,000 Under the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has amended its rules to increase the maximum forfeiture penalties for obscene, indecent, and profane broadcasts from $32,500 to $325,000 per violation or per day of a continuing violation, in accordance with the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush on June 15, 2006.