47 U.S.C. § 558 : US Code - Section 558: Criminal and civil liability

Search 47 U.S.C. § 558 : US Code - Section 558: Criminal and civil liability

Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to affect the criminal
or civil liability of cable programmers or cable operators pursuant
to the Federal, State, or local law of libel, slander, obscenity,
incitement, invasions of privacy, false or misleading advertising,
or other similar laws, except that cable operators shall not incur
any such liability for any program carried on any channel
designated for public, educational, governmental use or on any
other channel obtained under section 532 of this title or under
similar arrangements unless the program involves obscene material.