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Absurd Hero wrote:

Obscenity laws don't apply between 10PM and 4AM, so they could have easily shown the whole series uncut.

A uncompromisingly brazen statement like that needs to be backed-up with sources and links. Either back it up or retract it, your choice.

Consistent with a federal statute and federal court decisions interpreting the indecency statute, the Commission adopted a rule pursuant to which broadcasts -- both on television and radio -- that fit within the indecency definition and that are aired between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. are subject to indecency enforcement action.

Like indecency, profane speech is prohibited on broadcast radio and television between the hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

daxomni wrote:

Absurd Hero wrote: Obscenity laws don't apply between 10PM and 4AM, so they could have easily shown the whole series uncut. A uncompromisingly brazen statement like that needs to be backed-up with sources and links. Either back it up or retract it, your choice.

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Consistent with a federal statute and federal court decisions interpreting the indecency statute, the Commission adopted a rule pursuant to which broadcasts -- both on television and radio -- that fit within the indecency definition and that are aired between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. are subject to indecency enforcement action.

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Like indecency, profane speech is prohibited on broadcast radio and television between the hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/obscene.html

Of course, Cartoon Network is on cable, so that doesn't apply anyway.

Obscene Broadcasts Are Prohibited at All Times

The Supreme Court established the definition of obscenity. The Supreme Court’s definition is designed to cover hard-core pornography. Obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment and cannot be broadcast at any time. To be obscene, material must meet a three-prong test:

- An average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;

- The material must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and

- The material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

A national broadcast can be prosecuted in any location from where it is viewable, and that includes every little fundamentalist religious enclave that you've never heard of.

A statement from ADV Films re: Giant Robot Week on Cartoon Network

HOUSTON February 25 2003 - Cartoon Network is currently airing episodes from Neon Genesis Evangelion Dai-Guard Martian Successor Nadesico and the Harmony Gold production Robotech during the afternoon Toonami block as part of Giant Robot Week (Feb 24-28 2003).

While recognizing the value and significance of the anime titles they were granted permission to broadcast Cartoon Network is also bound by the exigencies of daytime broadcast—including the requirement that the content they broadcast be per FCC regulations suitable for children. Cartoon Network’s edits which were minor were in accordance with FCC broadcast requirements.

Sort of accurate. Broadcasting obscenity is a federal offense. As such, it gets tried in federal court, of which there are not that many. It gets tried by federal prosecutors, who would not likely be a fundamentalist religious person.

In any case, there are guidelines for what defines obscenity, and it's a big stretch to ever think a court would rule anything occuring in Eva patently obscene.

Now, that's completely different from broadcasting indecent material, which would be what it would most likely fall under if anything. But, as has been said, CN is not under the FCC broadcast standards, so that matters little.

All of this is exactly why I will never watch anime on commercial television. To see a series I love get butchered up really makes me mad. So I stay away.

All of this is exactly why I will never watch anime on commercial television. To see a series I love get butchered up really makes me mad. So I stay away.

If it is so bad, they should do what they are doing to second GIG, slap a TVMA on it, and leave it alone.

Don't know if anyone's noticed it yet, but [as] has two different ratings for Eva. The first, of course, is the TV-PG seen when an episodes starts. The second, which is seen during a commercial for the title, is TV-14-VLDS. Could this latter rating mean anything in terms of ep. 18, or was it just something that [as] missed?