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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Seven_words_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Seven words (disambiguation)">Seven words</a>.</div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Words traditionally disallowed in U.S. broadcast radio and television</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Seven_Dirty_Words_WBAI.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Seven_Dirty_Words_WBAI.jpg/220px-Seven_Dirty_Words_WBAI.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Seven_Dirty_Words_WBAI.jpg/330px-Seven_Dirty_Words_WBAI.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Seven_Dirty_Words_WBAI.jpg/440px-Seven_Dirty_Words_WBAI.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>A poster in a <a href="/wiki/WBAI" title="WBAI">WBAI</a> broadcast booth which warns radio broadcasters against using the words</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>seven dirty words</b> are seven <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English-language</a> <a href="/wiki/Curse_word" class="mw-redirect" title="Curse word">curse words</a> that American comedian <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a> first listed in his 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" <a href="/wiki/Monologue" title="Monologue">monologue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-umkc_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-umkc-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The words, in the order Carlin listed them, are: "<a href="/wiki/Shit" title="Shit">shit</a>", "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piss" class="extiw" title="wikt:piss">piss</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Fuck" title="Fuck">fuck</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Cunt" title="Cunt">cunt</a>", "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cocksucker" class="extiw" title="wikt:cocksucker">cocksucker</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Motherfucker" title="Motherfucker">motherfucker</a>", and "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tits" class="extiw" title="wikt:tits">tits</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-umkc_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-umkc-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time, the words were considered highly inappropriate and unsuitable for broadcast on the public airwaves in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, whether radio or television. As such, they were avoided in scripted material and <a href="/wiki/Bleep_censor" title="Bleep censor">bleep censored</a> in the rare cases in which they were used. Broadcast standards differ in different parts of the world, then and now, although most of the words on Carlin's original list remain taboo on American <a href="/wiki/Terrestrial_television" title="Terrestrial television">broadcast television</a>. The list was not an official enumeration of forbidden words, but rather were compiled by Carlin to flow better in a comedy routine. Nonetheless, a radio broadcast featuring these words led to a <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">Supreme Court</a> 5–4 decision in 1978 in <i><a href="/wiki/FCC_v._Pacifica_Foundation" title="FCC v. Pacifica Foundation">FCC v. Pacifica Foundation</a></i> that the FCC's declaratory ruling did not violate either the First or Fifth Amendments, thus helping define the extent to which the federal government could regulate speech on broadcast television and radio in the United States. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seven_dirty_words&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During a performance in 1966, comedian <a href="/wiki/Lenny_Bruce" title="Lenny Bruce">Lenny Bruce</a> said he had been arrested for saying nine words: "<a href="/wiki/Buttocks" title="Buttocks">ass</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Testicles" class="mw-redirect" title="Testicles">balls</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Fellatio" title="Fellatio">cocksucker</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Vulva" title="Vulva">cunt</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Sexual_intercourse" title="Sexual intercourse">fuck</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Sexual_intercourse" title="Sexual intercourse">motherfucker</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Urine" title="Urine">piss</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Faeces" class="mw-redirect" title="Faeces">shit</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Breasts" class="mw-redirect" title="Breasts">tits</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1972, comedian <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a> released his fourth stand-up album <i><a href="/wiki/Class_Clown" title="Class Clown">Class Clown</a></i>. One track on the album, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", was a monologue in which he identified these words and expressed amazement that they could not be used regardless of context. In a 2004 <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a> interview, he said: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I don't know that there was a "Eureka!" moment or anything like that. [...] On these other things, we get into the field of hypocrisy. Where you really cannot pin down what these rules they want to enforce are. It's just impossible to say "this is a blanket rule". You'll see some newspapers print "f <i>blank blank</i> k". Some print "f <i>asterisk asterisk</i> k". Some put "f <i>blank blank blank</i>". Some put the word "<a href="/wiki/Bleep_censor" title="Bleep censor">bleep</a>". Some put "<a href="/wiki/Expletive_deleted" title="Expletive deleted">expletive deleted</a>". So there's no real consistent standard. It's not a science. It's a notion that they have and it's superstitious. These words have no power. We give them this power by refusing to be free and easy with them. We give them great power over us. They really, in themselves, have no power. It's the thrust of the sentence that makes them either good or bad.<sup id="cite_ref-NPR-2004_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-2004-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Carlin was arrested for <a href="/wiki/Breach_of_the_peace" title="Breach of the peace">disturbing the peace</a> when he performed the routine at a show at <a href="/wiki/Summerfest" title="Summerfest">Summerfest</a> in <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee">Milwaukee</a> in 1972. On his next album, 1973's <i><a href="/wiki/Occupation:_Foole" title="Occupation: Foole">Occupation: Foole</a></i>, he performed a similar routine titled "Filthy Words", dealing with the same list and many of the same themes. <a href="/wiki/Pacifica_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacifica Radio">Pacifica</a> station <a href="/wiki/WBAI" title="WBAI">WBAI</a> broadcast this version of the routine uncensored on October 30 that year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Federal_Communications_Commission_v._Pacifica_Foundation"><i>Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seven_dirty_words&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/FCC_v._Pacifica_Foundation" title="FCC v. Pacifica Foundation">FCC v. Pacifica Foundation</a></div> <p>In 1973 John Douglas, an active member of <a href="/wiki/Morality_in_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Morality in Media">Morality in Media</a>, claimed that he heard the WBAI broadcast while driving with his then 15-year-old son, Dean, and complained to the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) that the material was inappropriate for the time of day (approximately 2:00 p.m.).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the lodging of the complaint, the FCC proceeded to ask Pacifica for a response, then issued a declaratory order upholding the complaint. No specific sanctions were included in the order, but WBAI was put on notice that "in the event subsequent complaints are received, the Commission will then decide whether it should utilize any of the available sanctions it has been granted by Congress". WBAI appealed against this <a href="/wiki/Declaratory_ruling" class="mw-redirect" title="Declaratory ruling">declaratory ruling</a>, and the ruling was overturned by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a> in a 2–1 decision on the grounds that the FCC's definition of "indecency" was overbroad and vague and thus violated the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. The FCC in turn appealed to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a>. As an independent federal agency, the FCC filed the appeal in its own name. The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> intervened in the case, supporting Pacifica's argument that the FCC's declaratory ruling violated the First Amendment and that it also violated the Fifth Amendment in that the FCC's definition of "indecency" was too vague to support criminal penalties. </p><p>In 1978, the Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, ruled that the FCC's declaratory ruling did not violate either the First or Fifth Amendments, but it limited the scope of its decision to the specific broadcast that caused the declaratory ruling and declined to consider whether the FCC's definition of indecency would survive a First Amendment challenge if applied to the broadcast of other material containing the same or similar words which had been cited in Pacifica's brief (e.g., works of Shakespeare – "pissing conduits", "bawdy hand of the dial on the prick of noon"; the Bible – "he who pisseth against the wall"; the <a href="/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes" title="Nixon White House tapes">Watergate Tapes</a>). It noted that while the declaratory ruling pertained to the meaning of the term "indecency" as used in a criminal statute (18 USC 1464), since the FCC had not imposed any penalty on Pacifica, the Court did not need to reach the question as to whether the definition was too vague to satisfy the due process requirements of the Fifth Amendment.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This decision formally established indecency regulation in American broadcasting. In follow-up rulings, the Supreme Court established the <a href="/wiki/Watershed_(broadcasting)" title="Watershed (broadcasting)">safe harbor</a> provision that grants broadcasters the right to broadcast <a href="/wiki/Decency" class="mw-redirect" title="Decency">indecent</a> (but not <a href="/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity">obscene</a>) material between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am, when it is presumed few children would be watching.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The FCC has never maintained a specific list of words prohibited from the airwaves during the time period from 6 am to 10 pm. </p><p>The seven dirty words have been assumed to be likely to elicit indecency-related action by the FCC if uttered on a TV or radio broadcast, and thus the broadcast networks generally censor themselves with regard to many of the seven dirty words. The FCC regulations regarding <a href="/wiki/Fleeting_expletive" title="Fleeting expletive">"fleeting" use of expletives</a> were ruled unconstitutionally vague by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on July 13, 2010, as they violated the <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">First Amendment</a> due to their possible effects regarding free speech.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_words">The words</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seven_dirty_words&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The words"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The original seven words named by Carlin are: </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Shit" title="Shit">shit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urine" title="Urine">piss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuck" title="Fuck">fuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cunt" title="Cunt">cunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fellatio" title="Fellatio">cocksucker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motherfucker" title="Motherfucker">motherfucker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breast" title="Breast">tits</a></li></ol> <p>In subsequent routines, Carlin would frequently deconstruct the list, proposing additions or deletions based on audience feedback, or sometimes on his own whims. For example, a man asked him to remove <i>motherfucker</i> because, as a derivative of <i>fuck</i>, it constituted a duplication: "He says <i>motherfucker</i> is a duplication of the word <i>fuck</i>, technically, because <i>fuck</i> is the root form, <i>motherfucker</i> being derivative; therefore, it constitutes duplication. And I said, 'Hey, <i>motherfucker</i>, how did you get my phone number, anyway?<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>"<sup id="cite_ref-Again_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Again-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He later added it back, claiming the bit's rhythm does not work without it.<sup id="cite_ref-Again_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Again-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his comedy routine, Carlin would make fun of each word; for example, he would say that <i>tits</i> should not be on the list because it sounds like a nickname ("Hey, Tits, c'mere!") or the name of a snack food ("New <a href="/wiki/Nabisco" title="Nabisco">Nabisco</a> Tits! ... corn tits, <a href="/wiki/Cheese_Nips" title="Cheese Nips">cheese</a> tits, <a href="/wiki/Tater_tots" title="Tater tots">tater</a> tits!"). </p><p>A follow-up routine, titled "Filthy Words" (featured on his album <i><a href="/wiki/Occupation:_Foole" title="Occupation: Foole">Occupation: Foole</a></i>) sees Carlin revisiting the original list and admitting that it is not complete, proceeding to add the words "<a href="/wiki/Flatulence" title="Flatulence">fart</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Feces" title="Feces">turd</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Vagina" title="Vagina">twat</a>" to the list; rock band <a href="/wiki/Blink-182" title="Blink-182">Blink-182</a> would allude to this in their song Family Reunion. He brings this up again in another follow-up routine, "Dirty Words" (featured in <i><a href="/wiki/George_Carlin:_Again!" title="George Carlin: Again!">George Carlin: Again!</a></i>), still feeling the list was not yet complete, and assures the audience: "Some of your favorites might make the list this year!" </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Availability">Availability</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seven_dirty_words&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Availability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Carlin performed the routine many times and included it, in whole or in part, on several of his records and HBO specials. Parts or all of the performance appear on the following releases: </p> <ul><li>1972 – <i><a href="/wiki/Class_Clown" title="Class Clown">Class Clown</a></i> – Audio recording – "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television"</li> <li>1973 – <i><a href="/wiki/Occupation:_Foole" title="Occupation: Foole">Occupation: Foole</a></i> – Audio recording – "Filthy Words"</li> <li>1977 – <i><a href="/wiki/George_Carlin_at_USC" title="George Carlin at USC">George Carlin at USC</a></i> – HBO special – "Forbidden Words"</li> <li>1978 – <i><a href="/wiki/George_Carlin:_Again!" title="George Carlin: Again!">George Carlin: Again!</a></i> – HBO special – "Dirty Words"</li> <li>1983 – <i><a href="/wiki/Carlin_at_Carnegie" title="Carlin at Carnegie">Carlin at Carnegie</a></i> – HBO special – "Filthy Words"</li></ul> <p>The <i>Carlin at Carnegie</i> version can be heard as "An Incomplete List of Impolite Words" on the 1984 album <i><a href="/wiki/Carlin_on_Campus" title="Carlin on Campus">Carlin on Campus</a></i> (but not in the HBO special, <i>Carlin on Campus</i>). That version of the list features over 300 dirty words and phrases in an effort to stop people telling him that he left something off the list. Four days after Carlin's original <i>Class Clown</i> recording, the routine was performed again for students at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles">University of California, Los Angeles</a>. This would be months before its first official release. The recording was restored in December, 2013 and uploaded to YouTube by archivists at UCLA and could be accessed free of charge, but is no longer available due to a claim of copyright infringement.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The FCC ruling is referenced in "Offensive Language" from the album <i><a href="/wiki/Parental_Advisory:_Explicit_Lyrics_(album)" title="Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics (album)">Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics</a></i> and HBO special <i>Doin' It Again</i>, both 1990 recordings of the same performance; however, the routine that follows is entirely different. </p><p>The <i>Class Clown</i> version can also be heard on the vinyl/cassette only release <i><a href="/wiki/Indecent_Exposure_(album)" title="Indecent Exposure (album)">Indecent Exposure</a></i> (1978). The <i>Occupation: Foole</i> version can also be heard on <i><a href="/wiki/Classic_Gold_(George_Carlin_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Classic Gold (George Carlin album)">Classic Gold</a></i> (1992). Both versions were re-released again as part of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Little_David_Years_(1971%E2%80%931977)" title="The Little David Years (1971–1977)">The Little David Years (1971–1977)</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H.R._3687">H.R. 3687</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seven_dirty_words&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: H.R. 3687"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/U2" title="U2">U2</a> singer <a href="/wiki/Bono#U2" title="Bono">Bono</a> said on live television that his <a href="/wiki/60th_Golden_Globe_Awards" title="60th Golden Globe Awards">2003 Golden Globe Award</a> was "really, really fucking brilliant!" Despite complaints, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) did not fine the network. In apparent reaction,<sup id="cite_ref-bono_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bono-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on December 8, 2003, Rep. <a href="/wiki/Doug_Ose" title="Doug Ose">Doug Ose</a> (R-California) introduced H.R. 3687, the "Clean Airwaves Act",<sup id="cite_ref-bono_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bono-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Congress to designate a derivative list of Carlin's offensive words as profane in the U.S. Code. The stated purpose of the bill was "To amend <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Code/Title_18/Part_I/Chapter_71/Section_1464" class="extiw" title="s:United States Code/Title 18/Part I/Chapter 71/Section 1464">section 1464 of title 18 of the United States Code</a>, to provide for the punishment of certain profane broadcasts." In the text of the bill, the words <i>shit</i>, <i>piss</i>, <i>fuck</i>, <i>cunt</i>, <i>asshole</i>, and the phrases <i>cock sucker</i>, <i>mother fucker</i>, and <i>ass hole</i> are specifically listed.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bill was not enacted. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Subscription_services">Subscription services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seven_dirty_words&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Subscription services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Seven_dirty_words" title="Special:EditPage/Seven dirty words">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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Since cable television must be subscribed to in order to receive it legally, subscribers who object to the content being delivered may cancel their subscription, an incentive is created for the cable operators to self-regulate (unlike broadcast television, cable television is not legally considered to be "<a href="/wiki/Pervasiveness_doctrine" title="Pervasiveness doctrine">pervasive</a>", nor does it depend on a scarce, government-allocated <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum" title="Electromagnetic spectrum">electromagnetic spectrum</a>; as such, neither of the arguments buttressing the case for <a href="/wiki/Broadcasting" title="Broadcasting">broadcast</a> regulation particularly apply to cable television). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Industry_self-regulation" title="Industry self-regulation">Self-regulation</a> by many <a href="/wiki/Basic_cable" class="mw-redirect" title="Basic cable">basic cable</a> networks is undertaken by <a href="/wiki/Standards_and_Practices" class="mw-redirect" title="Standards and Practices">Standards and Practices</a> (S&P) departments that <a href="/wiki/Self-censorship" title="Self-censorship">self-censor</a> their <a href="/wiki/Broadcast_programming" title="Broadcast programming">programming</a> because of the pressure put on them by <a href="/wiki/Advertiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Advertiser">advertisers</a> – also meaning that any basic cable network willing to ignore such pressure could use any of the Seven Dirty Words. 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Fairman">Fairman, Christopher M.</a> (2009). <i><a href="/wiki/Fuck:_Word_Taboo_and_Protecting_Our_First_Amendment_Liberties" title="Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties">Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties</a></i>. 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