Explicit license plates

NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the revocation of a woman’s license plate reading “69PWNDU,” ruling that personalized plates are considered government speech, not private speech, and are not protected under the First Amendment. The woman, who had been using the license plate for 11 years, argued that the letters “pwnd” referred to a video game term and “69” was a reference to the year of the moon landing, but the state revoked the plate because of the sexual connotation of the numbers.