FCC Record, Volume 16, No. 11, Pages 7511 to 8388, April 2 - April 13, 2001 Page: 8,025

                                
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Moreover, I am aware of no rush of inquiries by broadcast licensees seeking to
learn whether their programs comply with our indecency caselaw. In the absence of
such requests, this Policy Statement will likely become instead a "how-to" manual for
those licensees who wish to tread the line drawn by our cases. It likely may lead to
responses to future enforcement actions that cite the Statement as establishing false safe
harbors. In the absence of proof that the Statement addresses concerns supported by the
FCC's history of enforcement, or the record of the Evergreen case, the Statement is
nothing more than a remedy in search of a problem. It would better serve the public if
the FCC got serious about enforcing the broadcast indecency standards. For these
reasons, I dissent.

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