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Carlin's Influence On Social Media

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Opponents of Carlin 's legendary act stated that the Supreme Court 's ruling was needed in order to protect social values, despite the “decay of human decency” as George called it. Patrick Trueman, CEO and president of Morality in Media, which is the same group that reported WBAI to the FCC for airing Carlin’s 7 dirty words routine, stated, "The ruling in Pacifica was an important one for people who want to uphold the standard of decency in society. If the FCC was vigilant, you wouldn 't see the networks pushing the envelope, but they do because they aren 't interested in upholding standards of decency and are only interested in making money and competing with cable TV. You get to this point where the FCC has not done its job adequately and …show more content…

The use of profanity in a post- “7 dirty words” has rapidly increased the most on social media, Reppler’s May 2011 did a survey with 30000 Facebook users, which showed that 47% of Facebook users had some form of profanity on their walls. Another example of how ridiculous censorship has severely impacted people lives is how an Indiana high School student was expelled for saying the word “fuck” in a series of tweets on his twitter account. The exact tweet was "fuck is one of those fucking words you can fucking put anywhere in a fucking sentence and it still fucking makes sense”. Austin Caroll the high school senior who wrote this on twitter got expelled and the story went unnoticed, which indicated two things a good sign and a bad sign. The bad sign is that people can still have their lives ruined over the use of profanity but because the story wasn’t talked about in the media that much shows that public opinion towards profanity is becoming less and less against it. Jerry Hamza who was George Carlin’s friend and manager said that “If the 'Seven Dirty Words ' have a legacy, it 's that language and freedom of speech win,". He continued to say that "I don 't think people are going back to saying, 'You can 't say this, you can 't say that. ' I think those barriers are gone. I think the 'Seven Dirty Words ' have helped bust down the uptightness about language and I don 't think we can ever go back. I can 't see it."

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