Guilds to FCC: Discard indecency standards

December 01, 2006 The creative guilds, the ACLU and a pair of former FCC commissioners were among the dozens of people and organizations that asked the federal court Thursday to throw out the commission's new indecency standards, arguing that the agency's interpretation of the rules has made the regulations constitutionally suspect. In a "friend of the court" brief filed Thursday, the groups asked the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn an FCC ruling issued this year that applied new standards for censoring indecency and profanity. The DGA, SAG, WGA East, WGA West and AFTRA were among those joining the ACLU to urge the court to throw out the FCC's censorship scheme altogether, arguing that "the FCC's efforts to regulate in this area have proven to be constitutionally unworkable."

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