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No it's not. It's one of the "seven dirty words": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words You can get f
by Houshalter 11y ago
No it's not. It's one of the "seven dirty words": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words
You can get fined a lot of money if you say it over the air. The FCC doesn't regulate cable, however. But those companies set their own standards, as do advertisers, and do limit or ban cuss words.
Typically cuss words will be bleeped if it is used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_censor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_censor . However people are so used to bleeps that their mind often fills in the cuss word.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> No it's not. It may be frequent by some standard (e.g., some threshold of average number of total number uses per unit wall clock time), but only on a very small percentage of TV outlets (particularly, premium cable outlets that don't have to deal with either advertisers or broadcast regulation.)
- vacri 11y ago'Seven Dirty Words' is from 1972, and includes 'piss' and 'shit'. It's hardly a canonical reference for 2015. I recall Grampa Simpson using 'piss' in the mid-90s, for example...
- Houshalter 11y agoThat's true, but I can't find an official list of bad words. Fuck is still forbidden as far as I know.