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Indecent Speech On Broadcast Television: A Constitutional Challenge To The Government’S Time-Channeling Provisions, Krista Jacobsen

Krista S. Jacobsen

What is the correct level of scrutiny under which to evaluate the constitutionality of restrictions of indecent speech in broadcast television? The Supreme Court has never articulated the answer to this question. Since the mid-1970s, however, courts have seemingly afforded a lower-than-strict level of scrutiny to governmental restrictions of indecent speech in broadcast television.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) attempts to “time-channel” indecent content on television to the hours when children are unlikely to be in the audience. In 2006, the FCC announced that it was adopting a more aggressive approach to indecent speech on television. In the future, even …

Universal Broadband In The United States: Is It A Pipe Dream Or Soon-To-Be Reality?, Krista S. Jacobsen

Krista S. Jacobsen

Internet access increasingly has been viewed as vital for countries’ economic well-being. In March of 2004, President Bush expressed the view that access to the Internet for all Americans is critical to the country’s economic growth, and he established a goal that every American should have affordable high-speed Internet access by 2007. As of December 2006, however, allegedly only 19.6% of the United States population subscribed to broadband service. This take rate establishes the United States as fifteenth in the world in broadband penetration, behind countries such as Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As …