Poll of the Day > the censorship process in america regarding media always baffles me

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kids can be exposed to call of duty and nobody cares but if a kid sees one boob on television then people flip out big time


nobody even flinches if a body is mutiliated and decapitated in gruesome ways but if someone says a naughty word and someone's butt is seen then complaints will be spammed online

i just find it disturbing how over the top gore and violence doesn't even get a reaction out of anyone even if it's something kids would be seeing

but nudity and curse words are somehow worse than seeing someone's body crushed by a tractor

where is the logic?
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Nudity and curse words are not part of everyday life. So of course they wouldn't be allowed to see them.

But grotesque violence? Shit's regular in America. Just last week I saw someone brutally impaled by a log on a highway (people seriously need to learn to stop driving behind trucks loaded with wood). And the week before that I saw a bull walking around with a child's body slung between its two horns. Parents probably thought it'd be fun to let their kid try bullfighting. Probably won't do it for the next kid though, you live and you learn.
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Makes me wonder what kind of age rating the Flodder film series got in the US, from what I understand it has been released there...
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It baffles Americans too.
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Censorship is not logical.
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That_70s_show posted...

Nudity and curse words are not part of everyday life. So of course they wouldn't be allowed to see them.

But grotesque violence? Shit's regular in America. Just last week I saw someone brutally impaled by a log on a highway (people seriously need to learn to stop driving behind trucks loaded with wood). And the week before that I saw a bull walking around with a child's body slung between its two horns. Parents probably thought it'd be fun to let their kid try bullfighting. Probably won't do it for the next kid though, you live and you learn.

curse words aren't a part of everyday life? clearly You've never seen people stuck in a traffic jam or watched someone smash their foot into something by accident

when people get mad as hell they are prone to cussing

families across the country get into arguments with all sorts of colorful words thrown back at each other
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A lot of things seem to baffle you.

NightMareBunny posted...

kids can be exposed to call of duty and nobody cares but if a kid sees one boob on television then people flip out big time

Except that violent games ARE subject to the ERB which is censorship and that games themselves aren't put in public

NightMareBunny posted...

nobody even flinches if a body is mutiliated and decapitated in gruesome ways but if someone says a naughty word and someone's butt is seen then complaints will be spammed online

Also edited for TV. Maybe you're just baffled because you don't understand how anything works.

NightMareBunny posted...

but nudity and curse words are somehow worse than seeing someone's body crushed by a tractor

Again, you wouldn't see any gruesome element on tv except perhaps on the news which is largely immune to censorship.
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Zeus posted...

Also edited for TV.

...There's a bunch of Walking Dead clips I could link, but spoilers.
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NightMareBunny posted...

where is the logic?

You want to see boobs in kids cartoons bro?
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NightMareBunny posted...

That_70s_show posted...

Nudity and curse words are not part of everyday life. So of course they wouldn't be allowed to see them.

But grotesque violence? Shit's regular in America. Just last week I saw someone brutally impaled by a log on a highway (people seriously need to learn to stop driving behind trucks loaded with wood). And the week before that I saw a bull walking around with a child's body slung between its two horns. Parents probably thought it'd be fun to let their kid try bullfighting. Probably won't do it for the next kid though, you live and you learn.

curse words aren't a part of everyday life? clearly You've never seen people stuck in a traffic jam or watched someone smash their foot into something by accident

when people get mad as hell they are prone to cussing

families across the country get into arguments with all sorts of colorful words thrown back at each other

lol
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Every place I've ever worked, people calmly use casual swearing in normal conversation.
I hear far more swearing from laid back people than I ever do from angry ones.

And yeah, TC. It's weird and stupid and makes no sense. Which makes it pretty obvious what the source of those censorship attitudes is. religion

streamofthesky posted...

Every place I've ever worked, people calmly use casual swearing in normal conversation

You didn't need to remind us of your blue-collar background =p

streamofthesky posted...

And yeah, TC. It's weird and stupid and makes no sense. Which makes it pretty obvious what the source of those censorship attitudes is. religion

Except it's generally not.
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Zeus posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Every place I've ever worked, people calmly use casual swearing in normal conversation

You didn't need to remind us of your blue-collar background =p

Heh. It applies just as much among engineer colleagues now as it did when I was working in jobs like retail, shipping/receiving, etc...

Well, any culture founded by puritans is at risk to be hypocritical.
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Swearing is inappropriate. Why would people use inappropriate language?

It's not normal. People don't swear.
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kids can't be exposed to call of duty

it's rated M for Mature

you must be 17 or older
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That_70s_show posted...

Swearing is inappropriate. Why would people use inappropriate language?

It's not normal. People don't swear.

yeah they do....swearing happens when frustration builds up and you can't keep it inside anymore
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lol, no. People use violence as an outlet, not swearing. That's why violence is OK and swearing is not.
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yeah no....by that logic beating your neighbor over the head with a steel chair would be normal

you get sent to jail for violence

just telling someone you don't have time for their [Expletive] isn't gonna net you jail time

but beating the crap out of someone will
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NMB, I'm pretty sure that he's being sarcastic...

NightMareBunny posted...

yeah no....by that logic beating your neighbor over the head with a steel chair would be normal

it is in america. Have you seen the news coming out of Florida?
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nobody cares about florida it's just old people and alligators
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Florida is the center of American culture.
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Philoktetes posted...

kids can't be exposed to call of duty

it's rated M for Mature

you must be 17 or older

Yet you'd be surprised at how many kids under 17 have played CoD and talk about it in public; same with GTA V. Some parents don't monitor what their kids play; all they care about is keeping the kid QUIET so they can rest after a hard days' work.

GastroFan posted...

Philoktetes posted...

kids can't be exposed to call of duty

it's rated M for Mature

you must be 17 or older

Yet you'd be surprised at how many kids under 17 have played CoD and talk about it in public; same with GTA V. Some parents don't monitor what their kids play; all they care about is keeping the kid QUIET so they can rest after a hard days' work.

That is the parent's shortcoming.

NightMareBunny posted...

kids can be exposed to call of duty and nobody cares but if a kid sees one boob on television then people flip out big time

nobody even flinches if a body is mutiliated and decapitated in gruesome ways but if someone says a naughty word and someone's butt is seen then complaints will be spammed online

Puritans. They are the moral ancestor of the country and wanted nothing to do with sexual imagery etc. (they bred like rabbits of course but that sort of hypocrisy is baked in to most of the system too) but nothing was ever specified about violence when they stuck their nose into the rule making because all of the money/land was coming out of disenfranchising indigenous people, by force if necessary-see manifest destiny, et al.
Europe has a much more healthy view-sex is good, fun and the human body is nothing to be embarrassed about, violence is permissible if necessary to make a point but doesn't need to be glorified and who cares what words you say because they're just words.
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Philoktetes posted...

kids can't be exposed to call of duty

it's rated M for Mature

you must be 17 or older

I thoroughly agree, except that's not the reality and you know it. Look at Australia's rating system-they've essentially banned a lot of games with their R18+ 'not classified' crap loophole because they're worried kids will see it. they're right because a lot of parents are too stupid/lazy to watch what the kid is playing but it's not the government's place to dabble in censorship.
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