So on the one hand the conservatives fight the Consumer Protection Agency as needless government meddling but on the other....

I've yet to see a swear word harm a person of any age.

As a kid I, and everyone else my age, knew and liberally used every swear word in the book.

"Family Rights Groups"

you have no right to tell the rest of us what we can and cannot hear/see, and you do not represent my family. kindly go fark yourself you medieval farkwits.

I...the family of four is watching "Glee," a scripted Fox television program. Ninety seconds into the comedy, one of the teenage female characters makes mention of Asian men and their sexual prowess. Nell Dillard immediately looks over at her 13- and 11-year-old boys watching next to her,

So turn off farking FOX and put on PBS. Go to the local socialist book/DVD lending station public library and get something that you find more appropriate.

downstairs: I've yet to see a swear word harm a person of any age.

Shows what you know. As a child, I was repeatedly beaten by the word "piss". It'd come home drunk and beat me into submission just to feel like a real word. One day I made the mistake and said to it "Piss, you can't do shiat, because I have shiat on my side and shiat will beat your arse into a farking pulp." Turned out that shiat, arse and fark were on piss's side, and beat the coont out of me. I never saw coont again come to think of it.

Focus on your own damn family.

Isn't this the case where the appellate court judge noted that the FCC lawyers had repeatedly quoted a lot of those terms in the courtroom... which was being televised on C-SPAN?

Sybarite: the government helpfully sent to each justice a DVD copy of the "NYPD Blue" nudity scene. There has been no word on whether they have watched it.

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shiat, this is nowhere near as good as Long Dong Silver.

Since corporations don't watch TV or have children, SCOTUS will be very unlikely to rule on the side of freedom of expression and raise-your-own-damn-kids.

Um, parents, if you don't want your kids to watch what is on TV, don't let them watch TV. Or, if you're really paranoid, watch it first to see if it passes your Puritan Parent filter, and then, if so, let them watch it. There are all kinds of recording devices or internet devices that let you do that these days. Leave the rest of us our free speech rights.

WorldCitizen: Um, parents, if you don't want your kids to watch what is on TV, don't let them watch TV. Or, if you're really paranoid, watch it first to see if it passes your Puritan Parent filter, and then, if so, let them watch it. There are all kinds of recording devices or internet devices that let you do that these days. Leave the rest of us our free speech rights.

They should do a study on how it affects children not to be allowed to watch certain things. Talk about building up the forbidden fruit factor.

Back in the day I remember being a kid and it seemed like everyone at school was talking non-stop about certain movies and TV shows I was not allowed to watch so naturally I made it my goal in life at the time to watch every minute of that stuff I could. It probably would have been healthier for me to just be allowed to watch it every now and then rather than fuel obsession for it.

eddyatwork: If they really wanted indecency off the air, they could start with reality television.

I'm with you.

Then they can take on the "rednecks yelling at each other" programming on TruTV, TLC and Discovery channel.