You can get fined a lot of money if you say it over the air. The FCC doesn't regulate cable, however. But those companies set their own standards, as do advertisers, and do limit or ban cuss words.
Typically cuss words will be bleeped if it is used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_censor . However people are so used to bleeps that their mind often fills in the cuss word.
Assuming this letter is true: they're not stopping you from using offensive words, they're stopping you from using a very small set of words because those words contribute to a culture that cause actual harm.
TV is a poor example: it's fine to make jokes about male rape on TV, but everyone loses their shit when an obscured nipple is shown.
>Assuming this letter is true: they're not stopping you from using offensive words, they're stopping you from using a very small set of words because those words contribute to a culture that cause actual harm.
Says who? What you are describing is textbook censorship.
You're offended? So what. Not my problem, step away from the computer.
'retarded' in it's current usage is not offensive. It means "very foolish or stupid."
'retarded' in it's dated usage is offensive, but it wasn't being used in that sense in the repo in question. This dated usage has fortunately fallen pretty much completely out of common usage.
If I tell you "my brother is retarded" you know exactly what I mean because if I had wanted to tell you that my brother has a learning disability I would have used a different word than 'retarded'.
vacri|10 years ago
'Fuck' is frequently used on TV.
Houshalter|10 years ago
You can get fined a lot of money if you say it over the air. The FCC doesn't regulate cable, however. But those companies set their own standards, as do advertisers, and do limit or ban cuss words.
Typically cuss words will be bleeped if it is used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_censor . However people are so used to bleeps that their mind often fills in the cuss word.
chuckreynolds|10 years ago
DanBC|10 years ago
Assuming this letter is true: they're not stopping you from using offensive words, they're stopping you from using a very small set of words because those words contribute to a culture that cause actual harm.
TV is a poor example: it's fine to make jokes about male rape on TV, but everyone loses their shit when an obscured nipple is shown.
retrogradeorbit|10 years ago
No it doesn't. Where's your proof?
Plenty of people have said plenty of nasty things throughout the years, and no one died.
Yet our empire uses remote control drones to bomb small children, and that's totally OK. (Now there's a real "culture that causes actual harm")
What is really harmful, and what isn't? Take a good, hard look around.
Sticks and stones (and bombs) will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Try it. Go on. Call me whatever you want. And watch me not give two fucks what you think.
Mikushi|10 years ago
Says who? What you are describing is textbook censorship.
You're offended? So what. Not my problem, step away from the computer.
shkkmo|10 years ago
'retarded' in it's dated usage is offensive, but it wasn't being used in that sense in the repo in question. This dated usage has fortunately fallen pretty much completely out of common usage.
If I tell you "my brother is retarded" you know exactly what I mean because if I had wanted to tell you that my brother has a learning disability I would have used a different word than 'retarded'.