Stupid censorship

[Karen El]

I am getting really sick of the kind of censorship that makes it impossible to get the joke. I don't know if the Daily Show is shown anywhere unbleeped, but there's been a couple of occasions lately where it's been impossible to infer what word was being used from the context, and while I'm sure it was hilarious for the studio audience, I'd be tempted to give the writer a slap and reminding him he has a larger audience who would also like in on the joke.

Similarly, there's an episode of Yuru Yuri where the girls are making things with clay, but Chinatsu's work is pixilated, suggesting it is offensive in some way, but since no one ever refers to it directly, you don't know what the joke is. Of course it being Yuru Yuri, that might well BE the joke. Anyway, I object to censorship on principle, but if people must do it, I wish they'd take it into account when writing gags based on things the audience won't be allowed to know.

[Suffering Sappho]

I work in retail, and we have music playing over the speakers all the time. Occasionally a word gets left out (there's no bleep noise, the vocals just go silent for a second) if it's deemed inappropriate. Even something like the word "bar" is left out when in reference to drinking. If only one word in a song needs to be removed, I understand. They do that for radio versions of some songs too, but when a main word of the chorus has to get removed dozens of times, to the point the lyrics no longer make any sense, it makes me wonder why they chose that song to be played in the first place.

[Hugin]

The Daily Show is up on the Comedy Central site, and Colbert Report is up on Colbert Nation, and I'm pretty sure both are uncensored.

I understand the airwaves being limited to be family friendly, to a degree, so that consumers can turn them on with their families during the day, but after 10 PM that's pointless and shows should be allowed to do what they want.

[RobStaeger]

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think the FCC doesn't regulate cable for content. They *can* do what they want -- and what they want to do it bleep, to keep their advertisers happy.

[zemo]

I find instances where censorship is utilized to imply somethign outrageously offensive funny, so I'd hope that Yuru Yuri episode was doing that.

Aside from that, I live in a country that is very very low key on that, at least in regards to words, so I count myself lucky.

[Karen El]

The Daily Show is up on the Comedy Central site, and Colbert Report is up on Colbert Nation, and I'm pretty sure both are uncensored.

Not for me, they are region locked.

[Lester C.]

In America censorship is usually voluntary and to be frank artisticly the bad move the majority of the time it's employed. That said I used to be gung ho free speech all the way until I started posting on the internet and realized how the staggering amount of people out there with diseased thinking. I’m not talking about charged political rederick which I consider our birthright, but sadistic people who relish the misery of other, in their mind, inferior individuals and post it online for everyone to read. Do we really want these people to be able to have their own televison shows?

[EmarAndZeb]

In America censorship is usually voluntary and to be frank artisticly the bad move the majority of the time it's employed. That said I used to be gung ho free speech all the way until I started posting on the internet and realized how the staggering amount of people out there with diseased thinking. I’m not talking about charged political rederick which I consider our birthright, but sadistic people who relish the misery of other, in their mind, inferior individuals and post it online for everyone to read. Do we really want these people to be able to have their own televison shows?

Diseased/sadistic/evil/whatever people still have the basic right to self-expression. Besides which, evidence suggest it's a really shit idea to empower any human authority to unilaterally determine what forms of expression count as "wholesome" or "worth hearing" ("No, this dissenting opinion of yours rings too much of malice for my tastes..."). Frankly I find plenty of the culturally accepted shit on reality TV/talkshows pretty sadistic and irredeemable too, but fortunately for the networks I'm not God-Emperor of America either, so they get to keep cranking out whatever vomit they can sell.

[Lester C.]

Diseased/sadistic/evil/whatever people still have the basic right to self-expression. Besides which, evidence suggest it's a really shit idea to empower any human authority to unilaterally determine what forms of expression count as "wholesome" or "worth hearing" ("No, this dissenting opinion of yours rings too much of malice for my tastes..."). Frankly I find plenty of the culturally accepted shit on reality TV/talkshows pretty sadistic and irredeemable too, but fortunately for the networks I'm not God-Emperor of America either, so they get to keep cranking out whatever vomit they can sell.

Right now Muslim and race bashing is in, at least it is on the mainstream news outlets I go to, not in the articles but in the comments section. I really don't want those people to take their message on the airwaves.

[Kingsmythe]

Right now Muslim and race bashing is in, at least it is on the mainstream news outlets I go to, not in the articles but in the comments section. I really don't want those people to take their message on the airwaves.

Then don't watch.

For me personally, Howard Stern is the best illustration of how I view freedom of speech. I personally can't stand the man, his show, about anything I've heard him say, or what he does. So, when he comes on, rather than saying he should be taken off the air or something, I turn it off or leave the room. It's not that hard. If you really don't like what you're hearing/seeing.... don't listen/look.