NBC: F*ck The FCC

In three words, that’s essentially what the Peacock network thinks of the FCC’s findings — which cite Cher‘s “Fuck ’em” on Fox’s Billboard Awards and Bono‘s “Fucking brilliant” at NBC’s Golden Globes — and go against the FCC’s “own standard, common sense, conventional wisdom and ordinary usage.”

Fox, by the way, agrees with NBC.

In court documents, NBC says “no reasonable observer could actually conclude that Cher was exhorting the audience to have ‘sexual activities’ with those critics, or that her comment related somehow to sexual organs.”

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