Did you notice I used a swear word a couple posts back? The FCC would have, and acted like idiots about it if they could. Judge Pierre Leval, and seemingly every other judge present, gets the Impossibly Stupid Seal of Approval for saying:

What are you protecting children from?

U.S. judges mock broadcast regulator's 'fleeting expletives' policy

As someone who still remembers being a child, I assure you that the lack of seven words being broadcast didn't keep me from learning them at a young age. More to the point, I only figured out they were worse than other words because the adults made a fuss about them. Even Sesame Street taught me to pick out when one of these things is not like the others:

• buck
• duck
• funk
• luck
• muck
• puck
• suck
• tuck
• yuck