Media Censorship

[strongbad]

I have to do a report on it.
To what extent should the media be censored? If you were in charge, how would you go about censoring it?
or what are your opinions on it whatever

[Geno]

Here's a good place to go

[PuuMastaFunk]

I wouldn't censor anything. Fuck political correctness. If the world wasn't so sue-happy, people would actually laugh at what's normally censored. And besides, if you really wanted to censor stuff, you'd have to block the Internet for any child under the age of 18, anyways.

No censor.

[Dullahan]

Well, if it were up to me, I'd start off by not hiding any full-frontal nudity from minors. I can understand the whole PORN CENSORSHIP, but that's a whole new ball game.

Secondly, I still haven't decided my opinion on censoring bad language. Seems to me, the people of the future are starting to swear a lot more and use it as the way they talk.

[guff]

Secondly, I still haven't decided my opinion on censoring bad language. Seems to me, the people of the future are starting to swear a lot more and use it as the way they talk.

for the most part that's a common misconception
every generation thinks that the forthcoming generation is more profane; hell, the greeks and romans had plenty of drawings of guys with huge dongs plowing fat chicks
my guess is that it has to do with the proliferation of mass media; when a new medium like books or films is first adopted, it has a tendency to be heavily censored, with that easing up over time e.g. there's plenty of bawdy books from the 1800s and 1900s, but not many bawdy shows from the 1950s  
but really profanity in speech has been fairly consistent: avoided in formal settings, commonly used amongst the working class and in private

hell, a lot of the profanities still in use today, like shit, cunt, and fuck can be traced back to at least 1200 ad, if not further
lots of fishermen and sailors who spoke germanic languages had some dirty mouths  

oh, and speaking of cunt

[Dullahan]

for the most part that's a common misconception
every generation thinks that the forthcoming generation is more profane; hell, the greeks and romans had plenty of drawings of guys with huge dongs plowing fat chicks
my guess is that it has to do with the proliferation of mass media; when a new medium like books or films is first adopted, it has a tendency to be heavily censored, with that easing up over time e.g. there's plenty of bawdy books from the 1800s and 1900s, but not many bawdy shows from the 1950s  
but really profanity in speech has been fairly consistent: avoided in formal settings, commonly used amongst the working class and in private

hell, a lot of the profanities still in use today, like shit, cunt, and fuck can be traced back to at least 1200 ad, if not further
lots of fishermen and sailors who spoke germanic languages had some dirty mouths  

oh, and speaking of cunt

Perhaps. But I guess I'm just looking at this in a way that if you look at the way people talk today, compared to the way people talked in the '50s, you'd notice a big difference.

[Infel]

The internet is so huge, it's impossible to monitor. We're starting to see the trend in reverse.

[guff]

Perhaps. But I guess I'm just looking at this in a way that if you look at the way people talk today, compared to the way people talked in the '50s, you'd notice a big difference.

uh no not really
just because the holdovers we have from the '50s seem tame now doesn't mean they were then

also, the '50s wasn't actually in black and white like it is on tv just thought you should know 

[Dullahan]

uh no not really
just because the holdovers we have from the '50s seem tame now doesn't mean they were then

also, the '50s wasn't actually in black and white like it is on tv just thought you should know 

whoa trippy

[Samus Aran]

Perhaps. But I guess I'm just looking at this in a way that if you look at the way people talk today, compared to the way people talked in the '50s, you'd notice a big difference.

You need to watch less TV, clearly.

[guff]

You need to watch less TV, clearly.

no don't you get it leave it to beaver was a documentary 

[Dullahan]

You need to watch less TV, clearly.

I'm not even remotely using TV as my view.

[Nyerp]

You need to watch less TV, clearly.

yeah instead he should jump in his time machine like you did right

[guff]

I'm not even remotely using TV as my view.

what are you using 

[Dullahan]

what are you using 

Well, my strongest one would have to be novels. I feel that they kinda give a good sense of what the reality is. Take The Outsiders, for example. That type of story is so much different than a story today.

Also, while we're on the topic of censorship and the past. Keep in mind that there was still porn back then.

There were still restrictions, however. It was very controversial when it wasn't heterosexual. My whole point is that we shouldn't really hide cussing from minors. I just find it unnecessary.