[Thurston_Howell_III]

We have become a coarse society that will not get any better by allowing profane language on TV and radio.

Nor will we will get any worse, the internet is full of profanity and pornography galore, should the FCC start putting limits on that? The rule in question here is based on media architecture that is rapidly becoming less relevant, to try and make traditional social arguments for one form of media when the entire media "pie" has expanded is a silly endeavor that is stuck in the past. Government needs to sell the licenses and legislate the architecture of the system, but they should tread lightly when it comes to the moral content of what the licenses provide. Tough to make the "public good" argument when television being replaced by the internet as a source of information, and the internet is full of naughty language.

[DJ MacWoW]

Nor will we will get any worse

Keep greasing that slippery slope.

From post 11: The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion;

added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it.