“Has the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) changed so much since George Carlin’s ’seven dirty words’? Does it even have a list of words that can’t be used on air? In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the FCC’s indecency judgment on Carlin’s comedy monologue about seven words you can never say on TV (which he said repeatedly in a radio broadcast of the piece). These days, U2 frontman Bono can say the F-word during the 2003 Golden Globe Awards broadcast, and the FCC rules it as not obscene. It appears that the FCC doesn’t have a list of banned words, and context is everything. Words can be objectionable depending on how they’re used and intended. Bono’s exclamation used the F-word as an adjective to describe his excitement. The FCC found his use to be ‘fleeting and isolated.’” [ Read the rest of Ask Yahoo’s answer ]