Originally Posted by Skybird

Since some people make any limiting of "free speech" such an issue here when it is about pouring out supremacist hate propaganda in Germany having the potential to relativise the crimes of the Nazi era and to raise new such troubles, let'S look at america - where the federal appeal court in NY has just sacked a law that prohibited not hate speech of this kind - but simple cursing on TV, even a single word that by modern standards is considered pretty much as maybe vulgar but still contemporary speech:

http://www.welt.de/fernsehen/article...ht-werden.html

The "puritan" media control FCC had released rules against unwanted words on TV, these rules go back to the 70s, and congress raised the penalties to over 300,000 dollars for using for example the F-word.

This was just the first English source I found to verify the German article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_644837.html