If it's a test case for CBS, and they're allowed to air the profanity, all the other networks will then want to show their profanity-laced programs. And we'll be right back where we started, before these stricter rules went into effect.
If there is no out-pouring of complaints from the public, they will go further the next time.
Exactly right. If the public gives this program a pass, because of the subject matter, it will be setting a precedent, and we'll be back to the same old profanity.
You do remember when NBC aired Schindler's List, unedited, 9 years ago? Was that their 'test case'? I fail to recall any recent hard-core pornography shown on the Peacock channel.