"We do not regulate content," said Paul Wein, a spokesman for the agency.
President Clinton artfully distinguished the antidrug payola from any effort "to regulate content".
If our goal is to improve content, why not regulate content directly, as the F.C.C. used to do, rather than obliquely via ownership regulations?
In his opinion affirming that decision, Justice Kennedy made several points that could limit the government's ability to regulate content in new communications technologies.
In doing so, the court signaled a promising reluctance to allow the government to regulate content in the newer communications technologies.
Attempts to regulate content on newer, more elective media, including cable TV, the Internet and even dial-a-porn, have been deemed unconstitutional and in violation of the First Amendment by the courts.
The company defends its unwillingness to employ humans to regulate content by pointing to principles of free expression, yet it readily coöperates with law enforcement and makes compromises that are difficult for users to evaluate.
The vote was 5 to 4, with an unusual lineup of justices, in a decision that, beyond the context of cable television, could pose obstacles to government efforts to regulate content in new media.
But the boom is prompting a fierce debate over the limits of free expression in a newly democratic Indonesia, with the government trying to regulate content on the Internet and a recently emboldened news media pushing back.
Does it regulate content or is it a neutral platform?
Plus, it comes in the wake proposals by the Ministry of Truth (Ok, so the Department of Culture, Media and Sport) to regulate content.
