U.S. Court Upholds TV Profanity Crackdown!

Actors and TV personalities, better start avoiding the "F-word," "S-word," and other expletives. The U.S. Supreme Court has already upheld a U.S. government crackdown on profanity on television - subjecting broadcasters to fine for airing of any expletive on live TV show!


The policy against broadcast indecency has won victory on the U.S. court last Tuesday. It covered the use of "fleeting expletives," like the "F-word" and the "S-word" that denote "sexual or excretory activities."

The case was formed following the 2006 Federal Communications Commission decision that found News Corp's Fox Television Network guilty of violating decency rules when it aired expletives from Cher on 2002 Billboard Music Awards and Nicole Richie on the 2003 awards.

"Even when used as an expletive, the F-word's power to insult and offend derives from its sexual meaning," Justice Antonin Scalia has said while believing that the new policy is rational.

But while the FCC rejoices against the one-time use of profanity on live television, critics of the policy sees irony, saying:

"The FCC patrols the airwaves for words that have a tenuous link with sex and excrement while commercials during prime-time hours ask viewers if they are battling erectile dysfunction or are having trouble going to the bathroom."