F-Bombs OK? FCC Asks If It Should Ease Swearing, Nudity Ban

Should the Federal Communications Commission lighten up on enforcing its ban on swear words and nudity on broadcast media?

The agency has proposed doing just that—letting "fleeting" violations slide and enforcing its rules only for "eggregious" offenses.

The FCC invited comments for 60 days on the enforcement change in an April 1, 2013 announcement (click on PDF thumnail).

Dick Bobnick of Burnsville submitted this comment to the FCC on April 12:

Have you people gone completely mad? The culture in our United States is rapidly descending into a sewage pit; the films, the TV shows, the reality shows, the so called recording business, the liberalleft talk shows and OUR SCHOOLS! Already the "P" word for urine is all over the place with youngwomen now using it regularly. Now you want to contribute to the decadence and filth already outthere by relaxing the few standards left in our so called civil society? Who makes up your committee,hop heads, druggies, tramps and pimps? Get some respected men of the cloth on your so calledcommittee and wake up to the challenge our pastors are already dealing with with the high level ofpromiscuity. It sounds like your staff is just another "make work" committe of the deplorable moralitychallenged Obama administration!

Comments submitted to the FCC are public. You can see them by searching a comment database at the FCC website.

The Minnesota Family Council sent an email April 9 (click on PDF thumbnail) asking people to submit comments such as: "I oppose any changes to the current FCC indecency standards that would allow television and radio stations to broadcast expletives and nudity on the public airwaves, even if brief or 'fleeting.'”

Would you like the FCC to ease its enforcement of indecency rules on TV and radio broadcasters? Leave a comment below.

Click on the YouTube thumbnail (or visit YouTube.com) for an example of the "fleeting expletives" behind the U.S. Supreme Court case cited by the FCC. It's Cher at the 2002 Billboard Music Awards (6:00 mark—profanity warning).