<BEEP>ing hell, did you hear about this <BEEP>?

[aimeeandbeatles]

A swear word is just a word. whats the big issue. if your gonna make a fuss theres more important things than a few words

Compare this to: I don't like advertising on TV, but I do like to watch TV. There's nowhere advertising-free I can go ?

PBS? iirc, Ive never seen ads on it.

 

[Cutlass]

Good move. Now we need the FCC to be legally banned from doing any censorship at all. There's no justification for spending taxpayer money on that.

 

[Tani Coyote]

A swear word is just a word. whats the big issue. if your gonna make a fuss theres more important things than a few words

Children hearing it might repeat it. This is ACTUALLY a valid concern, as anti-censorship as I am.

Children, from my experience, are very easily imprinted on: this goes both ways with what they can learn from TV(positive things from children's shows vs. negative things from more adult shows). You use the f word around them too much, they'll start using it.

For a more comedic example, think what happens in Meet the Parents' sequel when the main character uses a bad word around the baby...

Of course, I think the solution is mandating parental controls. Not mandating complete elimination of swearing.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Children hear these things from other children or from adults around them or written in graffiti on a wall. You can try to shield kids from these things, but you will fail.

 

[classical_hero]

Should we take CFC to the courts now?

 

[Luckymoose]

This is mostly thanks to the religious rightwingers and I do apologize for them. Down here we have a large percentage of people who find swearing offensive and unnecessary and will go out of their way to make sure its removed. They think it protects their kids but they usually end up with the pregnant fourteen year old daughters and some such other variety of laughable outcomes. The problem can't be fixed by liberals or conservatives, as both are religious nuts in America, as far as the political scene anyway, and we will just have to wait. Even if our own religious views diminish we will be too afraid to cross others. We already can't show Muhammad because some goat farmers might bomb us. Media tries to control the world through controlling language and content. Internet is solving this problem.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Children hearing it might repeat it. This is ACTUALLY a valid concern, as anti-censorship as I am.

Children, from my experience, are very easily imprinted on: this goes both ways with what they can learn from TV(positive things from children's shows vs. negative things from more adult shows). You use the f word around them too much, they'll start using it.

For a more comedic example, think what happens in Meet the Parents' sequel when the main character uses a bad word around the baby...

Of course, I think the solution is mandating parental controls. Not mandating complete elimination of swearing.

That's what I was gonna say (more or less). It's the parents' deal. And even mandating it is beyond the government's authority (in an ideal world).

Just don't put a cable/TV/satellite receiver in the kids room and put a lock on the one in the family room.

 

[J-man]

So, can we now bury the list of seven words you can never say on television next to George Carlin?

 

[warpus]

Hey, ignorant non-tv watcher here. Why doesn't this ruling apply to non-broadcast U.S. TV?