Censorship

Originally posted by soleran30
LOL the people in general have these opinions about "filth" however I find humor in it🙂 Anyone against Family Guy is a communist! LOL Come on American Dad is all about conservative family's!

LOL, seriously... if parents don't want their kids watching this stuff, here's a unique idea - turn it off. don't keep the rest of us from enjpying our fave shows. I agree with the tv watch woman, parents groups shouldn't prevent the rest of us from enjoying our fave shows. their ratings should be enough to prove that a lot of us feel this way...

Originally posted by KharmaDog
That's just precious.

As for censorship, sometimes I believe it isn't all together a bad thing. What I find odd is what is (or is not) censored. I find it perplexing that I can watch a character on T.V. get his guts blown across the screen with a high powered rifle, but that other people deem viewing a woman's bare breasts as offensive.

I agree. Why is violence OK, but not a woman's body ?

Is it true that in Canada, women can show their breasts on TV ?

No they can walk around on the street if they wanted to but i have yet to see that. Also that applies to the province of Ontario (where Toronto and Ottawa are). i am not sure about the others.

Also yes you can see womna breasts on some channels like after 10-11 pm.

Originally posted by crickey77
I keep reading in the news about censorship - movies, tv, radio, etc. Even just today I read something about the Howard Stern thing. I'm just curious what you guys think about it. Personally I am all for free speech and think these parent groups should just take responsibility for their own kids. I don't want them to change shows like Law and Order to accomodate some people. What do you think about the subject?

Agree

When I was in Japan, I saw pictures of animated women who were topless in stores I've seen kids in.

I heard that nudity isn't a huge deal in France either.
I really don't know about Britain !

Lot's of things are a big deal here.

I remember during the Iraq "war" that a particular newspaper had some drunk celeb on the front page. People dying in an unjust invasion and their top priority is some idiot's life.

-AC

Well, the thing I've never understood about censorship, is that it serves as a cop-out for parenting. Logically, perhaps not the most socially-beneficial aspect of allowing kids to see things they don't know about or "shouldn't" know about, is that it gives the parents the chance to explain the situation to the children from their perspective. They are given the chance to instill their hateful rhetoric into the child, so that the kid can cringe in disgust when two men kiss...just like their daddy.

As far as language, I seriously doubt that bleeping out a "bad word" is going to prevent the kid from learning it. I didn't learn bad words from watching TV. I learned it from my parents and other kids.

Here's an example.

When I was about five years old, my family was in the car driving around my home town. We passed a billboard that hada picture of a local black new anchor. I said "Oh, look at that Nigg**!" My parents FREAKED! When they asked me where I had heard that word, I answered honestly. I heard it from friends at school. We had, maybe, two black kids in my entire school. (A private school in a deep southern town...what can you expect?) It's the same as sex. Why do we know more about sex at a younger age, than did our parents? Friends. School. And I went to a private, Catholic school...good job Jesus! I knew what a blowjob was when I was in the fourth grade.

I've always found it slightly amusing that when somebody says "goddamn," they bleep "god" but not "damn".

Anyways, I'm opposed to any kind of censorship, because I believe it infringes on freedom of speech.

I haven't seen a lot of Canadian TV, but I have heard words on
this show called North of 60 that I probably would not hear on
American TV like s**t. I'm not sure if topless women were ever shown.

Yes, good people, you are all correct.
Welcome back to the land of the free, and double standard.
There’s no need in me making a point, you’ve done it.
Please, indulge my venting ramble.

Censorship is the tool of the powerful, AND everything counts in large amounts.(conflict of interest here)
As previously stated here in posts, several in fact, when you travel abroad,
you (typically) won’t find censorship placed in areas that you will here.

News media is the core culprit.
Sensationalism in the guise of journalism is the reason
Do you really care if a high profile model gets her photo taken in the middle of a line?
My favorite Senator or Congressman would never do that (line), right?
(I won’t elaborate)

Years ago, I watched the R. Bud Dwyer suicide televised on the 5:00 early edition news.
Concerning the indictments that he had earned himself, knew he could get a live feed (not including the 7 sec. delay), he wanted this seen and he knew the networks would (censor) have a fit.
He knew, years ago, what you are saying.
While MOST kids (and some adults for that matter) don’t watch the news broadcast until it affects school outages, the ratings for that broadcast shot through the roof for ALL ages.
In the course of a half hour, the network that aired that broadcast, the calls swarmed.
Incidentally, there were no copy cat suicides by children or anyone relating to this event.
Parents will look at a broadcast and say what if my kids see that?,
but don’t REALLY DON’T KNOW what their kids are doing right now.
I know, one of them just broke the mirrors on my truck.

Catholic Priests? We hide that until someone sues.

Let’s look over some of the posts on this board.
The evidence is here too
I was censored by a Mod (and pre-empted) here who has MASSIVE typos.

Welcome back, to the do as I say, not as I do society.
Did I say that *****? ****** * ***** ****, **** **
********!!

hey we were givin the right to cuse so we should be able to cuse......he called me the "B" word so what........what can a word do to u......if ur that imature that u say HE CALLED ME THE "B" WORD then u should just die......its just a ****in word

Its all after 9-10pm. After 9 pm all hell breaks loose on TV up here. However i remember hearing strong swearing on tv before that.

speaking of family guy? did you guys hear about this upcoming episode?

After a controversial mishap occurs during a live broadcast, the FCC begins to censor all of Peter’s favorite television shows. Peter retaliates by creating his own TV station – “PTV” – which he operates out of the Griffin home. Peter and Brian create some edgy hits for the station, until the FCC shows up and starts to regulate their everyday life .

its good because i think episodes like with will raise controversy and maybe help groups like tv watch to get a following to help fight against some of the parental groups.

Anyone else gonna watch that epi?

What doo you expect.... I mean does anyone rememeber the "travesty" with Janet Jackson that shocked everyone to death? It wasn't a big deal in any way, shape, or form!

Well you can watch the daily show re-run at 4pm and there is B&%* and many other swear words. Sometimes you can hear some strong swear words on the local news.

Originally posted by justdecent
What doo you expect.... I mean does anyone rememeber the "travesty" with Janet Jackson that shocked everyone to death? It wasn't a big deal in any way, shape, or form!

I agree. It was just her nipple !
I see a lot more offensive stuff on the news like all the violence.
Nobody is offended much by the violence yet see a woman's nipple
and suddenly it's a huge deal !

Other countries are probably used to seeing female breasts, but
America apparently isn't.

I know Former Prime Minister Jean Chreatin swears live on TV and there is no uproar. Imagine if BIll Clinton said shit, B(*(* or F&(*.

anyone catch sunday night's family guy? i just watched it on tivo. they totally ripped apart the fcc...

here are some interesting comments:
http://blog01.kintera.com/TVWatch/

Originally posted by crickey77
anyone catch sunday night's family guy? i just watched it on tivo. they totally ripped apart the fcc...

here are some interesting comments:
http://blog01.kintera.com/TVWatch/

I saw that episode and really liked it.

here is a clip of the FCC song i read online: http://www.devilducky.com/media/37922/

spiral, did you read any of that stuff on the site i posted?