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== Television ==
* The American FCC, since it a) charges ''very'' large fines for violating the standards for programs in media it has authority over (mainly broadcast television and radio), and b) ''refuses to publish a list of those standards''; they can't file criminal charges. Those fines started at $27,500 and went up to $325,000 after Janet Jackson flashed the audience at the 2004 [[Super Bowl]]. The record is $1.2 million, for a [[FOX]] reality show called ''Married by America'' in which someone licked whipped cream off a woman's censored nipples.
** Much of the backlash against the 7 April 2003 "Married by America" episode (which ran at 9PM, outside [[watershed]]) was contrived by a pressure group, the Parents' Television Council, who orchestrated hundreds of identical complaints. The FCC penalised not just the network's owned-and-operated stations, but a long list of small-town affiliates (which are owned independently). Low-power WNYF-CA
** [[Family Guy|Well, one complaint represents]] [[Take That|one billion people]].
* The Office of Communications (Ofcom) plays a similar role in the UK (although it should be noted Ofcom deals primarily with things like lying to viewers and porn channels).
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