This is just ridiculous, USA
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Your making one major mistake. Your assuming the censor boards are competent. They're not.
Hell, the FCC will let a film like Saving Private Ryan air without the station having to fear about reprisal because the swearing "Is historically accurate" but any other film tries to say "Ass" and they'll get censored.
Same thing goes with nudity. We've all seen nudity before, unless you just close your eyes when you step into a shower or bath, but we can't let any of it be seen EVER! God forbid you mention sex as well.
Hell, the FCC will let a film like Saving Private Ryan air without the station having to fear about reprisal because the swearing "Is historically accurate" but any other film tries to say "Ass" and they'll get censored.
Same thing goes with nudity. We've all seen nudity before, unless you just close your eyes when you step into a shower or bath, but we can't let any of it be seen EVER! God forbid you mention sex as well.
Which of these is a kid more likely to imitate? Blowing up a classmate, or belittling a female classmate by calling her a *****? Seriously, just because some folks censor one more than the other doesn't mean they "love" the less-censored one, or they think it's a-okay.Exerzet said:
This is probably the best answer. Kids really don't have filters when it comes to curse words and most parents wouldn't want their kids cursing at people in public. It can also be because of parents who are really sensitive towards cursing in general. I definitely feel the latter group is a small minority but a very loud minority.Etteparg said:
"*****" is a word for a female dog. It comes up a lot when discussing dog breeding.Shoggoth2588 said:
The weirdest example of musical censorship I've heard so far was in The Streets' "Fit but you know it", which includes the line "are you smoking crack or something?" which was changed to "are you smoking something" in the radio/music video version.
Within the context of the song, the line in question is (IIRC) uttered as an insult by a drunk belligerent British tourist at another guy waiting in line at a fastfood restaurant; there is no indication that the person the comment is addressed at is actually smoking freebase cocaine, nor can the sentence be construed as glorifying the drug in any gangsta/"chav"-romanticism kind of way; in essence "are you smoking something?" and "are you smoking crack or something?" seems like it would come down to the exact same thing (i.e. "are you on drugs?")
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And strangely enough, this example happens to be from the UK.
Within the context of the song, the line in question is (IIRC) uttered as an insult by a drunk belligerent British tourist at another guy waiting in line at a fastfood restaurant; there is no indication that the person the comment is addressed at is actually smoking freebase cocaine, nor can the sentence be construed as glorifying the drug in any gangsta/"chav"-romanticism kind of way; in essence "are you smoking something?" and "are you smoking crack or something?" seems like it would come down to the exact same thing (i.e. "are you on drugs?")
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And strangely enough, this example happens to be from the UK.
Ah the UK, I don't even know why we have so many age restrictions, the only ones that ever get checked are booze, fags and knives. Apparently there's something about not buying films under a certain age, or any sort of aerosol, but be fucked if I've ever noticed. Supposedly driving too, but unless there's a toddler at the wheel they won't pull you over unless you're driving like a prick directly in front of them.DeanoTheGod said:
I live in the US, and I actually don't know anyone who is against swearing. That is, I don't know anyone who is against it to the point of wanting it censored, though a lot of people I know find repeated swearing to be tasteless.
As for the censoring, it's probably just the result of a vocal minority of parents. At least they just censored it though. It's even worse when they replace the word with a less "inappropriate" word. Like, "I'm gonna fuck you up" becomes "I'm gonna mess you up," often in scenes where "mess" is really not the word. Like, a guy's holding a machete and is about to chop the other guy into pieces or something.
As for the censoring, it's probably just the result of a vocal minority of parents. At least they just censored it though. It's even worse when they replace the word with a less "inappropriate" word. Like, "I'm gonna fuck you up" becomes "I'm gonna mess you up," often in scenes where "mess" is really not the word. Like, a guy's holding a machete and is about to chop the other guy into pieces or something.
Did the you notice the lack of an age verification at the start of the video? The rating doesn't matter as anyone from 8 to 80 can look up the trailer.Exerzet said:
Regardless, the choice was done by EA, not by the US. ***** can be said on TV and on Radio and pretty much anywhere else without punishment. Don't assume the US has its hands in everything, if that was the case, they would have censored Crazy ***** on YouTube as well, which they haven't and ironically, the YouTube record accounts are probably the strictest when it comes to censorship.
Good catch, I never paid enough attention to the video to notice that.surg3n said:But look at 2:59KingHodor said:- snorting coke, and it's fairly obvious.
Censorship is retarded, I'd rather my kids read or heard the word ***** than seeing someone snort coke.
Which means that the censorship meter just went from from "bizarre" to "absolutely insane": They felt it necessary to change "smoking crack" (used purely as an insult) to "smoking something" for the video version, but then show heavily implied coke-snorting as being part of having a good time on holiday.
So I guess the official British stance on drugs is that cocaine is a perfectly socially acceptable substance, as long as you're insufflating it as a hydrochloride salt rather than smoking the freebase form.