The safe harbor policy is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) policy designating 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. as a time when broadcast radio and TV stations may air indecent material without violating federal law or FCC regulations.
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True
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According to the Miller test, an assessment of whether the material appeals to prurient interests must be based on conclusions drawn by an average person, not a child or a particularly sensitive person.
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True
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The First Amendment protects against the government seizing non-obscene books owned by a person convicted of selling obscene material.
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False
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Showing minors in sexual situations will likely be found to be variable obscenity.
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False
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The First Amendment protects using swear words in the print media and movies.
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True
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KWAK-FM moves the Sordid-Chuckles show to 1 a.m.–5 a.m. Now, the station ______.
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Is not in trouble because the Sordid-Chuckles show is being broadcast during a safe harbor period
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Assume the FCC adopts a definition of indecency the courts find constitutional. Then Suzy Sordid and Chucky Chuckles are hosts on a program airing from 6 a.m.–10 a.m. on KWAK-FM. Chucky often discusses sexual themes that are not quite obscene, but close. The station ______.
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May be in trouble, because the Sordid-Chuckles show may be indecent
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As part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress adopted a law making it illegal to transmit indecent material to minors over the internet. The Supreme Court ______.
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Held the law unconstitutional
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Rulings by the courts and the FCC about indecent material on broadcast stations are attempts to balance ______.
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Stations’ First Amendment rights and federal law banning all indecent material in broadcasting
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If a film using adults as the actors contains serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, the work ______.
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Cannot be legally obscene
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Variable obscenity is a term for material that ______.
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Is obscene for children, but not for adults
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The Miller v. California obscenity definition ______.
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Requires all three parts of the test to be met for a material to be found obscene
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Regarding obscenity, indecency, and the Internet, the U.S. Supreme Court has ______.
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Not yet upheld a congressional law limiting indecent content on the Internet
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The concept that sexually oriented material not obscene for adults may be obscene if distributed to minors is known as ______ .
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Variable obscenity
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Serious social value material cannot be found obscene if it has _________ determined using national, not local/community, standards.
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All of these
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Safe harbor policy is a federal Communications Commission policy designating _______ .
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10 p.m. To 6 a.m.
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Lustful thoughts or sexual desires are known as ______ .
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Prurient interest
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Term describing material with hard-core sexual conduct is known as _______ .
