That's interesting.
Here in the US we have the FCC which is the government agency in charge of regulating and fining broadcasters that violate regulations on indecent materials broadcast on network (free) television. In the 70s our Supreme Court passed down guidelines in a landmark ruling that banned seven dirty words, made famous by comedian George Carlin.
Since then there have been a number of recent FCC crackdowns and challenges decided in the courts by broadcasters and performers that have tried to push the limits of acceptability and sued the FCC arguing that FCC regulations banning obscenity are not clearly defined and are unconstitutional on free speech grounds. This began in the mid 2000's with Janet Jackson's titty flash at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004 leading to a crackdown. This brought the retroactive levying of unprecedented amounts in fines against Fox for 2002 and 2003 live broadcasts of the Billboard Music awards where Cher and Nicole Richie respectively used uncensored expletives.
This led Fox to take the case to court which was ultimately decided with a unanimous Supreme Court decision in 2013 that did not state whether or not the FCC still had the authority to fine broadcasters that aired indecent content, but it did throw out the two fines the FCC had levied against Fox, overturning lower court rulings that upheld the FCC's authority to determine public obscenity standards. Even if the FCC retains the authority to fine companies for the time being, the relaxing of standards and the fact most of the country receives their content from uncensored broadband means they will almost certainly lose that authority over the next decade or two. Otherwise network TV will become altogether irrelevant. Broadcasters will almost certainly use cable and broadband as their primary means of delivering content while avoiding network TV for its antiquated FCC decency guidelines that risks millions in fines.
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