Originally Posted by The_Jazz

Does anyone know if there are similar bans on curse words? I would expect that there are but most likely as a holdover from previous eras. Then again, its also entirely possible that those laws either expired or were repealed decades ago.

There's no infringement of free speech here until it's actually enforced. Until then, it's just posturing by the city.

Originally Posted by Cohen v. Calfornia

Finally, and in the same vein, we cannot indulge the facile assumption that one can forbid particular words without also running a substantial risk of suppressing ideas in the process. Indeed, governments might soon seize upon the censorship of particular words as a convenient guise for banning the expression of unpopular views. We have been able, as noted above, to discern little social benefit that might result from running the risk of opening the door to such grave results.

It is, in sum, our judgment that, absent a more particularized and compelling reason for its actions, the State may not, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, make the simple public display here involved of this single four-letter expletive a criminal offense. Because that is the only arguably sustainable rationale for the conviction here at issue, the judgment below must be

Reversed.