Censorship

I'm not really too fussed about censorship... but what I HATE is the ratings on audio CDs. Like "Moderate impact of coarse language/themes," which was stuck on the cover of Audioslave's first album. Then there's 'Strong' and 'Extreme.' You have to be a certain age to buy those CDs in a store. Movies I can understand, yeah, but CDs is pushing it. Especially since rap music seems to be having a lot of influence on kids these days, those CDs don't have ratings at all.

Sorry if this doesn't make much sense... I'm tired 😖

i know what you mean, i was cd shopping the other day and there was a cd (i dont remember what band, but the cds not gonna start waves of killings across the land if you know what i mean) and it had a lable stating that the album had "Stong To Extreme Impact Themes" on it. frankly, if your dumb enough to read into a song and kill people because of it, i think you needed help long before you walked into HMV

Originally posted by Afro Cheese
For parents who don't want their kids to see/hear certain stuff.. they have those new rating for TV shows and those "chips" that allow parents to block all shows with a certain rating.. they can use that. I don't think television should be as censored as it is. It's not impossible to keep your kids away from those shows.

Yup, thats what it all comes down to. The ****ing parents. You don't know how many times i've seen kids playing GTA right in ****ing front of the ****ing living room while their parents are in the kitchen or something. They should start mandating first time parents to take classes or something...idunno, but all i know is that there are lot of soft parenting going on.

Censorship is just a way to shelter our poor innocent youths from this horrible thing called 'real life'.

/\Read with sarcasm.

Originally posted by debbiejo
Stop that!!!!

You are nothing but the best of what there is....you silly Tavern girl.

Originally posted by Imaginary
I'm not really too fussed about censorship... but what I HATE is the ratings on audio CDs. Like "Moderate impact of coarse language/themes," which was stuck on the cover of Audioslave's first album. Then there's 'Strong' and 'Extreme.' You have to be a certain age to buy those CDs in a store. Movies I can understand, yeah, but CDs is pushing it. Especially since rap music seems to be having a lot of influence on kids these days, those CDs don't have ratings at all.

Sorry if this doesn't make much sense... I'm tired 😖

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and btw when there is a reality show, they're 'beeping' polish swearwords (not all, the worst ones) but they're leaving there all the 'fu.cks' and 'arseholes' if someone says them in english...or any other language. 🙄

Originally posted by Clovie

and btw when there is a reality show, they're 'beeping' polish swearwords (not all, the worst ones) but they're leaving there all the 'fu.cks' and 'arseholes' if someone says them in english...or any other language. 🙄

Swearing in other languages is never as offensive though.

You should get aqauinted with the Spanish language. Most of our swear words involve your mother..

Censorship has it's place.

In moderation, it's helpful to a great deal of people.

I believe censorship is important for children - much less important for adults.
The old argument a film made someone do something etc., is one we could argue forever - truth is films, music, comics etc. severely affect very few, albeit when they do it can be truly terrible. On the other hand has a lack of censorship and the proliferation of a skewed reality caused by the media corrupted society as a whole? This is a more interesting question🙂

Keep the faith🙂

Stay Whirly 🤘

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Swearing in other languages is never as offensive though.

Originally posted by Clovie
because you don't understand it?

Kind of, but even when someone tells you what it means, it doesn't have the same power due to various other factors.

Censorship is a tool of the devil. Especially when it's used to censor artistic creations (film, music, TV, video games, ect). More often then not, censorship is downright ridiculous - I.E. The morons who made a huge deal about the hot coffee mod on GTA, like seeing a poorly animated girl bobbing her head is somehow so much worse then the act of killing police officers and beating hookers to death with a baseball bat and stealing their money.

Just a backwards ass society we live in.

crazy isn't it

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Kind of, but even when someone tells you what it means, it doesn't have the same power due to various other factors.

for example polish equivalent of word 'whore' is very much worse than equivalent of the word 'fu.ck'

Originally posted by Clovie
that's a good point.

for example polish equivalent of word 'whore' is very much worse than equivalent of the word 'fu.ck'

Originally posted by Bardock42
Yeah, but even then it doesn't have that much meaning in your language. Like although I might know some Russian and some Icelandic Swearwords they don't have the same meaning to me...as if someone from that country hears them....

Originally posted by Clovie
how it doesn't have a meaning? you mean translations or english words? 😕
I know some finnish swearwords 😊

And if you hear them do you have the same feelings as if you heard the same word in polish?

Originally posted by Bardock42
And if you hear them do you have the same feelings as if you heard the same word in polish?

Originally posted by Clovie
not really. they sounds nice.

Not only that...but you ar enot connected with it...you weren't brought upo with the notion it's a bad word...it'S qa whole different deal that way....I mean I guess you can get accustomed to that way of thinking but hearing it for the first time won't make you feel bad or anything...

hmm...that makes sense. 😕