In the 1970's George Carlin set a standard, of sorts, for broadcasters when he released a stand-up comedy recording of "The Seven Dirty Words." Since then, the Federal Communications Commission has attempted to offer guidelines about the language used in over-the-air broadcasts. Those rules have not met with universal success.
In the Technology Spotlight, Clay Calvert, Ph.D., Director of the Brechner First Amendment Project, offers to TV 20's David Snyder a vision of the future of indecency guidelines on television and radio broadcasts.