Can you curse on tv

I say this emphatically and dysphemistically: That argument is fucking stupid. Every word is a relationship between the person saying it and the person hearing it. Everyone has to agree on what that word means, or the whole endeavor breaks down. No one can agree on anything at the moment: what is or is not obscene, what is or is not a coup, what is or is not an emergency.

Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out. When the Reverend Jonas Robertson bought a TV Guardian device to bleep the profanities on his family's set, he decided the little black box was too tolerant of foul language.

So he made his own. Robertson, the Pentecostal pastor of Abundant Life Church in New Orleans, began selling Curse Free TV in June and is pitching his product this week to leaders of the 32 million members of the Assemblies of God at its annual convention in Indianapolis. The product -- which is supposed to zap 95 percent of incoming naughty words -- lets parents uphold the dignity of their homes and still patronize their local video store, Robertson said.

The original TV Guardian , which Robertson licensed, monitors the closed captioning signal and compares it against an onboard dictionary of profanity. A troll tells his victim what he really thinks in 'The Good Fight'. Source: SBS. Even the edgiest shows like 'American Gods' can reject the C-bomb sometimes. Source: Starz. More on 'The Good Fight':.

For Michelle and Robert King, the married writing duo behind the critically lauded series The Good Wife and its new spin-off The Good Fight, there is no boundary separating their home and professional lives. With over episodes, starting The Good Wife was intimidating. Jump to navigation. Federal law prohibits obscene, indecent and profane content from being broadcast on the radio or TV. That may seem clear enough, but determining what obscene, indecent and profane mean can be difficult, depending on who you talk to.

In the Supreme Court's landmark case on obscenity and pornography, Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote: "I know it when I see it. In other words, if you "know it when you see it" and find it objectionable, you can tell the FCC and ask us to check into it. Obscene content does not have protection by the First Amendment.

For content to be ruled obscene, it must meet a three-pronged test established by the Supreme Court: It must appeal to an average person's prurient interest; depict or describe sexual conduct in a "patently offensive" way; and, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.