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Janet Jackson’s breast goes back to court – Broadsheet – Salon.com
May 6th
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It’s time to snap out of your Monday daze, sober up and direct your attention to some super-serious news of weighty importance: Today, the Supreme Court ordered a careful reexamination of Janet Jackson’s nipple. That is, our nation’s high court ruled that an appeals court will have to revisit its decision to toss out a $550,000 fine against CBS for the singer’s so-called wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl.
Why, you might ask, is the 5-year-old nipple slip, which officially lasted nine-sixteenths of a second, taking up yet more of our courts’ time? Well, a Philadelphia appeals court ruled last year that the fine went against the Federal Communications Commission’s 30-year policy of punishing indecency that was “pervasive as to amount to ’shock treatment’ for the audience”; it deemed a fraction of a second glimpse of Jackson’s right breast to be “fleeting” and undeserving of punishment. But, conveniently enough, the FCC’s appeal of the decision was heard after last week’s Supreme Court decision to uphold the commission’s right to fine over obscene speech even when it’s “fleeting.”
So, if you’re exposed to even a single f-bomb or breast on TV, rest assured that it’ll probably cost the network a @$*! load of money. That’s the FCC, protecting your innocence, one boob at a time.
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Obscenities Fly In “Skank” Hearing The Big Money
Mar 12th
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Joshua Plaut slumped in the back of Manhattan’s Supreme Court today, waiting for the judge and seemingly willing this whole affair to go away quietly. He hailed from the New York powerhouse law firm Wilson Sonsini, and Google was paying him top dollar to do as little as possible. The search giant, whose founders cling to their “Don’t be evil” motto like guns and religion, had found itself in the middle of a tabloid frenzy, a courtroom drama pitting a statuesque Vogue model against an anonymous blogger who had decided the world needed to know she was nothing but a dried-up strumpet. For a company that prides itself on ennobling the world in between bouts of record-breaking quarterly profits, this was grief Google didn’t need.
Last August, someone set up a Google blogger account and used it to create the blog Skanks in NYC, complete with photographs of New York model Liskula Cohen partying with her friends, as well as a few captioned observations about her sex life, age, and mental state. A horrified Cohen promptly got herself a lawyer and sued Google, seeking to force the company to divulge all identifying information the blogger provided when he or she registered the blog. The anonymous defamer’s attorneys challenged the suit, insisting that federal law protects their client’s online speech. Today, both sides met in court to duke it out.
The courtroom scene was Google’s worst nightmare. On the one hand, the company has come under fire for collecting personal information from its users and storing it for months; if Google gave up the blogger too eagerly, its worst critics would have another barb with which to accuse it of playing fast and loose with its customers’ privacy. On the other hand, who wants to be seen protecting some nasty, small-minded, cowardly gossip?
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