ABSTRACT
Freedom can be seen as a balance between classical liberalism and an individual “perfectibility. It is clear that the broadcast indecency case law does share a legal history with obscenity concerns over adult bookstores, movies, and the access by children to them. The distinguishing characteristic of broadcast indecency seems to be that words are at the heart of it. Media futurists have focused on technology, while entertainment of the masses is likely to remain a key function of mass media. Regulating “decency” on the Internet and other new technologies creates new problems. Speech will continue to evolve in the future, and broadcast speech will do the same.
