Supreme Court upholds FCC “dirty words” ban, for nowSCOTUS Blog: Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court upheld the government’s power under existing law to ban the use on radio and TV of even a single four-letter word that is considered indecent — but left open the question of whether the ban might violate the First Amendment, at least in some situations. The opinion is available in this post also detailing the voting breakdown.
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