Editing Shit (section)

===United States===
Unlike [[satellite radio]], American terrestrial radio stations must abide by [[FCC]] guidelines on [[obscenity]] to avoid punitive fines. These guidelines do not define exactly what constitutes obscenity, but it has been interpreted by some commissioners as including any form of words like ''shit'' and ''fuck'', for whatever use.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-11 |title=Obscene, Indecent and Profane Broadcasts |url=https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-profane-broadcasts |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=Federal Communications Commission |language=en |archive-date=28 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220428211930/https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-profane-broadcasts |url-status=live }}</ref>

Despite this, the word has been featured in popular songs that have appeared on broadcast radio in cases where the usage of the word is not audibly clear to the casual listener, or on live television. For example:
*In the song "[[Man in the Box]]" by [[Alice in Chains]], the line "Buried in my shit" was played unedited over most rock radio stations. 
*The 1973 [[Pink Floyd]] song "[[Money (Pink Floyd song)|Money]]" from the album ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' contains the line "Don't give me that do goody good bullshit", and has frequently been broadcast unedited on US radio. 
*The 1980 hit album ''[[Hi Infidelity]]'' by [[REO Speedwagon]] contained the song "Tough Guys" which had the line "she thinks they're full of shit", that was played on broadcast radio.
*On 3 December 1994, [[Green Day]] performed "[[Geek Stink Breath]]", on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', ''shit'' was not edited from tape delay live broadcast. The band did not appear on the show again until 9 April 2005.

Some notable instances of censorship of the word from broadcast television and radio include:
* [[Steve Miller (musician)|Steve Miller]]'s "[[Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band song)|Jet Airliner]]". Although radio stations have sometimes played an unedited version containing the line "funky shit going down in the city." The song was also released with a "[[radio edit]]" version, replacing the "funky shit" with "funky kicks". Another version of "Jet Airliner" exists in which the word "shit" is faded out. 
* Likewise, the [[Bob Dylan]] song "[[Hurricane (Bob Dylan song)|Hurricane]]" has a line about having no idea "what kind of shit was about to go down," and has a radio edit version without the word.
* [[Gwen Stefani]]'s "[[Hollaback Girl]]" video had the original album's use of the word censored in its video.
* The music video title "[[...on the Radio (Remember the Days)]]" by [[Nelly Furtado]] replaced the original title "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)".
* This also happened to "[[That's That Shit]]" by [[Snoop Dogg]] featuring [[R. Kelly]], which became "[[That's That]]".
* In [[Avril Lavigne]]'s song "My Happy Ending", the [[Radio Disney]] edit of the song replaces "all the shit that you do" with "all the stuff that you do".
*Likewise, in the song "[[London Bridge (Fergie song)|London Bridge]]" by [[the Black Eyed Peas]] member [[Fergie (singer)|Fergie]], the phrase "Oh Shit" is repeatedly used as a background line. A radio edit of this song replaced "Oh Shit" with "Oh Snap".
*[[Maroon 5]]'s "[[Payphone (song)|Payphone]]" replaces the line "All these fairy tales are full of shit" with "All these fairy tales are full of it".
*Likewise, [[Icona Pop]]'s "[[I Love It (Icona Pop song)|I Love It (I Don't Care)]]" uses "I threw your stuff into the bag{{nbsp}}..." in place of "I threw your shit into the bag{{nbsp}}...".