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Less than 24 hours after Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show, the FCC sent CBS a letter demanding a full investigation.
That's a shorter response time than the United States declaring war on Japan after Pearl Harbor — and it was over a flash of partial nudity that lasted 9/16ths of a second.
For the next 8 years, FIRE Chief Counsel Bob Corn-Revere defended CBS against the FCC "sharpening their enforcement blade." Revere and his colleagues won the case, reversing the $550,000 fine against CBS and preventing the FCC from using this incident as a way to gain more censorial power over TV networks.
It was a victory for free speech and the First Amendment, and proof that censorship is never the answer.
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