FCC madness: indecency appeal rejected for being too long

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Ars Technica readers may find the U.S. government's indecency rules laughable, but on Friday the Department of Justice told Fox Television that it's not playing around. The DOJ sued Fox for refusing to pay a $56,000 Federal Communications Commission fine for a 2003 Married by America strip show that the agency called insufficiently pixelated. To be sure, there are insufficiencies involved in this matter, but they mostly rest with the lame nature of the FCC's rejection of Fox Television's appeal.

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