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I remember watching the halftime show of the 2004 Super Bowl and seeing Janet Jackson’s nipple at the end of her duet with Justin Timberlake. I couldn’t believe what I had just seen and I knew it was going to be a large thing. Of course, no one knew at the time just how huge it was going to become. It actually changed the way TV shows are presented now.

But here’s some good news for logic: a federal appeals court has thrown out the $550,000 fine that the FCC gave CBS for broadcasting the football boob scene. In the ruling the court said the FCC acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” when they handed out the fine.

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