The Supreme Court upheld on Tuesday a U.S. government crackdown on profanity on television. This is a policy that is going to ask the broadcasters to pay fines for airing a single expletive blurted out on a live show.

In its first ruling on broadcast indecency standards in more than 30 years, the high court has signaled a victory to the Federal Communications Commission. Federal communications commission has adopted the crackdown against the one-time use of profanity on live television when children are likely to be watching.

The case has come up from an FCC ruling in 2006. It had found that the News Corp’s NWSa.N Fox television network violated decency rules when singer Cher blurted out an expletive during the 2002 Billboard Music Awards broadcast and actress Nicole Richie used two expletives during the 2003 awards.

However, no fines were imposed then.

Two issues are here: One, Are we suddenly discovering that profanity is bad? Can we really shut it out of our collective consiousness? Can the broadcaster really control the profanity in a live show? Two, what about wardrobe malfunctioning?