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While most of Washington, D.C., focused on the elections, the Supreme Court on Tuesday (Nov. 4) started discussing a closely followed case centering on indecency and swearing on TV.
The court’s review of the case, FCC vs. Fox, will decide whether the agency can subject broadcasters to fines when they air so-called “fleeting expletives” on live TV broadcasts or even vulgar language on entertainment programming.
For decades, the FCC had allowed isolated instances of vulgar language to go unpunished until the agency launched a crackdown in 2004 after an incident involving U2 frontman Bono.
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