Censorship

[Nouw]

Don't kill me but I'd rather keep the nudity censors on for some cases, maybe as an option? Protecting the children isn't that bad of an idea, just ask me and you'll see how fucked up I am >.>

However yes the censorship of the N-word was unnecessary and to be frank stupid.

but you just censored yourself.

I would think that if I did say it someone would be offended. I am not literature or a classic book and that is why.

 

[FalloutJack]

Ah, fuck censoreship. The FCC doesn't know what it's doing half the time, a fact proven when they had their license to practice removed.

 

[conflictofinterests]

Censorship is dumb, but it's OUR dumb. It's the way things are done in many cultures, and as a tool for the maintenance of cultures and the status quo, and (remember, this comes from an anthropology major) cannot in good faith be wholesale abandoned, should there come a time where it IS necessary to solve a problem.

 

[Eumersian]

Well the need for things to be FCC clean does mean that I have to listen to lyrics over and over again for songs that my college's radio station got for promos?

Really, censorship doesn't matter to me that much. I feel like the only thing it can possibly do positively is keep us from being over-sexualized potty-mouths. But if we did become that, it wouldn't be that much of a problem for me either.

OK, let me try again. It should be up to the person. If a person doesn't want to deal with the sex, etc., then they can skip the media the deal with it.

EDIT: Ever seen any of those pre-code Hollywood films? Some of them are pretty good. They didn't need to institute the code for any other reason than to make movies "less offensive".

So government censorship is pointless, in my opinion.

 

[Bon_Clay]

Censorship of the form people complain about has no place in free society. The government has no place forcing it on people, and people have no right to try and force it on other people. The protecting the children angle is bullshit, its up to parents to raise their children and decide what they have access to. Adults should have the right to decide for themselves what they watch and read, if you have to go out of your way to get access to something then there is no one to blame but yourself if you are offended.

And since when is being "offended" such a fucking big deal? I have no respect for anyone who thinks being offended by something is some horrible torture to them worthy of alerting the news media, or for anyone who babies these people and dignifies their melodramatic crap.

To quote C. S. Lewis: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Don't kill me but I'd rather keep the nudity censors on for some cases, maybe as an option? Protecting the children isn't that bad of an idea, just ask me and you'll see how fucked up I am >.>

However yes the censorship of the N-word was unnecessary and to be frank stupid.

but you just censored yourself.

I would think that if I did say it someone would be offended. I am not literature or a classic book and that is why.

I've never understood how someone can be offended by a word alone. You're not calling anyone that, you're just making reference to the word ******.

 

[Nouw]

Don't kill me but I'd rather keep the nudity censors on for some cases, maybe as an option? Protecting the children isn't that bad of an idea, just ask me and you'll see how fucked up I am >.>

However yes the censorship of the N-word was unnecessary and to be frank stupid.

but you just censored yourself.

I would think that if I did say it someone would be offended. I am not literature or a classic book and that is why.

I've never understood how someone can be offended by a word alone. You're not calling anyone that, you're just making reference to the word ******.

I don't necessarily understand it too but I do understand that I should be considerate of other people's feelings. You know?

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Don't kill me but I'd rather keep the nudity censors on for some cases, maybe as an option? Protecting the children isn't that bad of an idea, just ask me and you'll see how fucked up I am >.>

However yes the censorship of the N-word was unnecessary and to be frank stupid.

but you just censored yourself.

I would think that if I did say it someone would be offended. I am not literature or a classic book and that is why.

I've never understood how someone can be offended by a word alone. You're not calling anyone that, you're just making reference to the word ******.

I don't necessarily understand it too but I do understand that I should be considerate of other people's feelings. You know?

That I completely understand, but I'm not going to say "the n word" when discussing the term, I'm just going to say ******.

 

[Nouw]

Don't kill me but I'd rather keep the nudity censors on for some cases, maybe as an option? Protecting the children isn't that bad of an idea, just ask me and you'll see how fucked up I am >.>

However yes the censorship of the N-word was unnecessary and to be frank stupid.

but you just censored yourself.

I would think that if I did say it someone would be offended. I am not literature or a classic book and that is why.

I've never understood how someone can be offended by a word alone. You're not calling anyone that, you're just making reference to the word ******.

I don't necessarily understand it too but I do understand that I should be considerate of other people's feelings. You know?

That I completely understand, but I'm not going to say "the n word" when discussing the term, I'm just going to say ******.

Oh of course when I'm around with friends I'd just blurt out '******' (as tempting it is to do in public, people around me would stereotype me so quickly in a negative manner that negative energy may cause my head to explode).

Over here however everyone can see it if they want to >.>

 

[BlumiereBleck]

I will fight to the death for limited censorship. Which is censorship for government secrets and uses of the words of fuck and shit on television and radio. But there are many examples of times where it is just silly to censor.

 

[Kaymish]

i think censorship is wrong in all cases age restriction is a more viable way of protecting young minds if they need protecting from the works at all
i do agree with some views of the censors that young minds should be protected from SOME works but adults are not dolts and should be allowed to be exposed to the full range of whats out there and they are big enough and ugly enough to make their minds up for themselves

and besides with the rise of the internet censorship is almost impossible since the net treats censorship the same way as nuclear war it just routs round the damage so that the information is still available

 

[Blindswordmaster]

For the record: if this gets me suspended I called it.
Censorship, how do you all feel about it? Is it stifling free expression, or protecting innocent minds from corrupting influence. The two examples I call into question 2 incidents: Anne Frank's clit talk and the removing of the n word from Tom Sawyer. The first involves the inclusion of a detailed discussion of Anne Frank's female anatomy from her 15-year-old perspective in edition following the 50th anniversary of her death, which will not be linked to because irony loves screwing me over. Your thoughts on these and other incidents of censorship are appreciated.

Because changing the word to Slave is so much worse.Now i don't know if no one knows this but black people don't mind if you use racial slurs as long as you don't use them for an insult or as long as you know them and they are comfortable with it. Censorship is a Double Edged sword. I think people should just lighten up and stop being such sissies about how people speak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TylvUGJIi_w
Well said sir.