While I think the censoring of "dirty words" (e.g. shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits[0]) isn't useful, I would be hard pressed to say t

While I think the censoring of "dirty words" (e.g. shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits[0]) isn't useful, I would be hard pressed to say that those 7 words limit political discourse. The FCC also doesn't keep a list of words, just a vauge definition of "indecency" which has been challenged successfully in court. This all only applies to broadcast mediums; cable TV stations, the internet, books, &c are not covered by FCC regulations. While I think indecency and obscenity standards are problematic, the whittling of them by the courts, and that the courts can be brought into this at all, especially successfully, is an important factor in rebuffing these regulations as "positivity Soviet". [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words