The Supreme Court ruled today on its first indecency case in 30 years . In a 5-4 decision (PDF), the justices supported the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sanctions against Fox for a pair of live Billboard Music Award broadcasts containing some, err, “colorful metaphors.” The ruling supports the FCC’s ability not only to ban floods of offensive words, but also to sanction broadcasters for “fleeting expletives” uttered at live events. What fleeting expletives were involved in this case?

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Supreme Court backs FCC: fleeting f-bombs can be punished