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- wmoisis, on 10/12/2007, -23/+392Whats the big deal?
In Australia you can say whatever the ***** you want after 8:30, and it won't get bleeped out.
I don't think alot of Americans realise how backwards you look compared to the rest of the world when someone being killed on TV is fine, but a swear word or someone naked is banned. - nd_miller, on 10/12/2007, -24/+234I'd like to think most of us realize how backwards we are, but we are powerless against the religious right. Can't expose the kiddies to potty words or barely visible nipples.
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -12/+140"Can't expose the kiddies to potty words or barely visible nipples."
I can't wait for the time when breastfeeding will be consider corruption of minors. - Psykechan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+92All of this doesn't really matter. The phrasse used was "those animals are so ***** funny". Since "*****" is used as an adverb and not describing a lewd act, the FCC has ruled that to be acceptable.
Read more about it here regarding Bono saying "***** brilliant" at the Golden Globe Awards.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1249 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -22/+101how about you both shut the ***** up?
- chasealicious11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+80I went through my Tivo and watched it, it was bleeped out
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -25/+97Its true, those animals are so ***** funny I want to merge without looking.
- Sanchez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+64Did you just confuse Firefly with Firefox?
- pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+60wmoisis... I totally realize this... However, it doesnt seem to be the general public thats worried about it... There are a few groups in the US that seem to rule everything.
I wish I could slap some of those idiots in the face and show them their hypocritical ways. - megaton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+53A little lesson in censorship:
Networks answer to the FCC for obscene content because they broadcast (literally, as in radio waves.)
Cable stations answer to their advertisers. They can say whatever the ***** they want, whenever the ***** they want, at the risk of losing sponsorship. HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, etc. don't have that problem because...? That's right: YOU are the sponsor.
This was on FOX and therefore falls under the FCC's jurisdiction. FOX will likely be eating a fine tomorrow. But, heck, look how many viewers it won them! It's worth it.
EDIT: Good point, Psykechan. I had forgotten about that incident. It's possible they may not have to own up to the FCC for this. Great catch! - abeg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41I'm on the West Coast here (SoCal)
just went back to my Tivo. It was bleeped out :-(
we miss out on everything. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+37No censoring after a certain time period? Nahh, that would make too much sense.
- williamw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28It wasn't bleeped in British Columbia.
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26The bittorrent version wasn't bleeped out :D
- oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -16/+38Fox does make some bad decisions (why has Simpsons run for so long? why was Firefox cancelled before the first season was finished?), but they also bring some good shows (granted: not great).
On the subject of FoxNews:
TV news is ***** - period. If you are interested in getting accurate news... the TV is NOT where you should be looking. Granted, I hate Fox News and MSNBC, but I also hate CNN and the affiliate networks recently. BBC is hard to get in the US and typically is almost as left as Fox is right.
Overall, the most insightful thing I can say about this: you need to expect to be hand-fed crap if your only source of news is TV. You might as well limit your news to Stewart and Colbert. Seek out the news yourself (papers and CREDIBLE internet zines) and you will get a more accurate picture of world events. And definately don't trust anything 100% - as a reader/viewer, you should always be skeptical.
Cool it on bashing Fox - they were inventive a few years ago. I welcome more stations with the balls to change the face of the affiliate networks and push the FCC just a little. 30 years ago the FCC was unbearably strict compared to today.
@wmoisis
I think all Americans realized the FCC ***** policies (if they didn't know about them before) when Janet Jackson showed a nipple. Whether we like it or not WASPs still run this country. - kevinHaney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOFm29Mr3JI
They know all about the FCC... - Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I was shocked when they said "Hummers".
- nights0223, on 10/12/2007, -9/+28wmoisis - A similar rule applies in America too. Nip/Tuck is on at 9:00 central time, and can say whatever they want. Comedy Central also has uncensored movies on some nights.
- jefferson, on 10/12/2007, -10/+29And the youtube link dam google is so much faster with the video....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8dIQyj9sXw - Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18@gdm9000
I don't feed nipples to infants. But I see what you're getting at ;) - Shorties, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Yeah he did but don't digg him down on it he made some good points.
- jamesey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15i didnt even notice. did this happen on the west coast too?
- gdm9000, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18What really pissed me off about the Janet Jackson nipple ordeal is that everybody has nipples! Guys have nipples, too! They're what we feed infants! I'm a guy, and I can show off my nipples in public all I want. All she did was flash one for a second. I'm angry that my taxpaying dollars went to investigate a nipple on TV!
But it's not just FCC chair Michael Powell that's a ***** prude. The FCC was inundated with phone calls over that incident. Give me a ***** break! Those Puritans push up the ratings for a half dozen brutal murders and autopsies of rotting corpses on CSI a week, but they're scandalized by a nipple??? - theflavor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14It was bleeped in the Midwest also, I just checked on my DVR to verify
- wmoisis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13In my original comment, I wasn't referring to Cable TV (hardly anyone in Australia has that anyway) but free-to-air TV.
I will admit, however, that our videogame censorship is retarded. For example, as we don't have an 'R' rating for games, when the Hot Coffee mod was discovered for Grand Theft Auto, the game was totally banned. - Silencer7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Goddamn, you guys have no sense of humor.
you're not worth farty nonsense!
Now let's get milk-faced and hum like rabbits. - uncontested, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Everyone who replied to semiotix in a negative way is obviously too ***** stupid to understand sarcasm without [/sarcasm] being put in the end of every sentence.
I just ***** had to say that. - aristideau, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Also in Australia after 9:30 you can say the C word (Sex in the City) without a bleep.
It is fun watching American guests on live Australian TV shows squirm when the host drops really tame words like "*****" or "piss". They always look shocked. - dreamstorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11After 9 pm, you're pretty much allowed to say whatever you want in Canada, anyway. Since 90% of TV in Canada is U.S. imports, you don't notice this too often. But sometimes when you watch a movie that starts at 8, they'll show the censored version for the first hour, and then switch to the uncensored version for the remainder.
- pseudoastronaut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11man, probably the best scene from tonights episode!
I mean come on who doesnt like an out of place Rumsfield!? - jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10WTF the big deal?
Have you listened to 7th graders lately? They say stuff that would make a sailor blush and get you banned from every whore-house in New Orleans.
What is a "filthy-Sanchez" anyway? - eadnams, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11ahhhh, the puritan influence will never fade, i swear.... violence is fine, nudity/language is not... craziness.
- shooby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8yep bleeped out here in San Jose, cA
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14@oxyrubber
did u just say "why has the simpsons run so long"
I dunno, timeless classic that nearly every person can identify with. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I can't believe that the censorship in the US is so bad that the submitter was so shocked.
Here in the UK it's a free for all after 9pm, so *****, ***** and ***** are all fair game. - BeachSide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You give them the ever popular "dirty sanchez" right after you "tiger stripe" them BUT before you "donkey punch" them...
I like to throw in a good old fashioned tea bagging for good measure x_x - jefferson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Canadian east cost video from what I can tell.
- neutrascrub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8ya it's a clip from canada found it on the LOL release tonight
- Ebeniz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7no they didn't. The FCC doesn't have anything to say about Comedy Central cause it's pay TV so they can do what ever they want.
- TheGuy20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yep, just on the LOL release, it was bleeped on the air on fox. Inaccurate .
Kind of like when you watch it on adult swim or dvd. Dvd nothing is cut/edited. Adult swim they can say more than they can on fox. - Syntaxis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm so glad I live in a country where some rules make sense. Lovely how American Hollywood stars and musicians get interviewed here, radio, tv or magazine, and correct themselves when they say "*****" or "*****". The host replies: "That's ok, we can say *****, ***** and all that stuff here." They always reply positively. "Wow.. really? I love the Netherlands man. Back home they bleep out every ***** w.. sorr.. heh.. I can say that? At home they bleep out every ***** word!"
Then they giggle a bit and continue the interview. - gandre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7yea maybe the cartoons were on vacation on something and they filmed on-location out of the US
- shooby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9yes because we all know every episode of family guy is released straight to dvd and sold within minutes of airing
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Family Guy is meant for an audience 18 and up. They also had a warning before the show. Not a big deal. I wouldn't be surprised if this was capped somewhere out of the US.
- peritonlogon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It seems like everyone has forgotten that it is the job of our government and a few companies to raise our children, to keep their ears and eyes spotlessly clean and to make sure that the adult population retains an amount of moral clarity and moral behavior. You all need to get a clue. /sarcasm
- jefferson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This was aired, it is the LOL release I just cut this clip from it. At the begining of the release there is the standard 14+ rating with the maple leaf and judging that this was released 8 minutes after the est episode ended it would probably be safe to assume that this was capped off the Canadian Atlantic Global Network Channell which would have aired it half an hour earlier.
- publiccomp, on 10/12/2007, -15/+21Good old Fox standards and practices!
- kyoung989, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Bleeped out in Minnesota too. I'm guessing it was bleeped everywhere in the U.S. As one digger posted, "That clip is from Canada east coast."
- DoctorNo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I live on the Eastcoast and it was bleeped for me as well.
- Nexus85, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wow, I'm glad I live in a country where we don't do all this cencoring of language and stuff, so I don't have to get all exited when someone swears on tv.
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