1. Today, children are likely exposed to indecent language in various media far more often than they were in the 1970s, when the Federal Communications Commission first began to sanction indecent speech. Does this mean that we need more stringent—or less stringent—regulation of broadcasts? Explain.

2. Technological advances have made it easier for broadcasters to “bleep out” offending words in the programs that they air. Does this development support a more stringent—or less stringent—enforcement policy by the Federal Communications Commission? Explain.

The Communications Act of 1934 established a system of limited-term broadcast licenses subject to various “conditions”. [These conditions include] the indecency ban—the statutory proscription [prohibition] against “utter[ing] any obscene, indecent, or profane language by means of radio communication”—which Congress has instructed the [Federal Communications] Commission to enforce.