Censorship: What the fuck?

[Shindekudasai]

You know what pisses me off? Trolls, people that go around looking for the pettiest shit they can get their grubby little keyboard clicking hands on and making a big fuckin deal out of it just to look cool to all the other self hating toughgeeks on the board. Who are you, Webster? You really need to get a grip if the misuse of a word upsets you that much. That goes for all the assholes around here who's sole purpose is to make other peoples experiences miserable. Piss off. I'm here to have some fun.

Yeah, because that's what calpoon does all the time... What is your problem? You were the one talking like a smartass. And when somebody debunks your talk as "half-true" or wrong, you explode and start to gravely insult that user (and other users you claim behave the same way). How about you get a grip if you getting corrected conflicts that much with your self-perception that you immediately have to turn to oral violence. Jesus Christ...

I agree with you on the Justified and FX comment however. Great show on a great channel. And a nice ex-wife.

Really? I may have to start watching that facacta show now.

Facacta? Don't tell me that means "verkackte"?


Concerning the topic:
In my opinion, censorship of the media is in most cases a pretty bad and sometimes even farcical or pathetic tool in a democracy. A true democracy doesn't need this kind of censorship. And this concerns self-censorship by conservative tv stations as well as governmental censorship. Most cases of censorship in the private and the governmental sector are interdependent anyhow. If a tv station doesn't follow the moral code of a permanently self-censoring Christian coalition or the reccomendations of some absurd government agency, they either get sued or fined or their material gets seized or anything like that. Fascist crap, if you ask me. Especially if you do it like the Nazis. Violence is fine, but no sex or cursewords, no no no no!

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

Yeah, because that's what calpoon does all the time... What is your problem? You were the one talking like a smartass. And when somebody debunks your talk as "half-true" or wrong, you explode and start to gravely insult that user (and other users you claim behave the same way). How about you get a grip if you getting corrected conflicts that much with your self-perception that you immediately have to turn to oral violence. Jesus Christ...

How is saying fuck is an acronym being a smartass? And who proved me wrong? Because like I said before there's nothing in Wikipedia, which by the way is not omniscient, that says one way or the other where fuck came from or didn't come from. So your diatribe at the top of this page means the same as the other two; nothing. And don't call me a smartass or tell me I'm wrong untill you can prove it with something more substantive that your opinion.

 

[Asianlov69]

buy a dvd and then you don't worry about it...

 

[calpoon]

So your diatribe at the top of this page means the same as the other two; nothing. And don't call me a smartass or tell me I'm wrong untill you can prove it with something more substantive that your opinion.

What are you talking about? Shindekudasai has only made one post in this thread, I think that you are confusing him for me.

I was only arguing about the meaning of acronym, not the etymology of the word "fuck".

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

What are you talking about? Shindekudasai has only made one post in this thread, I think that you are confusing him for me.

I was only arguing about the meaning of acronym, not the etymology of the word "fuck".

No I was talking about the guy who started this whole thing by saying he burst my bubble by some shit he got from Wikipedia. This is silly, I don't want to argue about this anymore. I got it from a VanHalen album cover anyway. :dunno:

 

[LaLiLuLeLohan]

Which rulebook are you talking about? The one that I use to define words is a dictionary, which doesn't make distinctions towards words based on the organization that is using them.

Arguing that censorship is only limited to government process is the equivalent of saying that you can't kill someone unless a court decries it murder, or that you can't be dishonest unless you are guilty of perjury.

For instance Freeones forbids it's members from talking about certain things and posting certain content, and if one does so, they will be banned and their posts will be removed or edited. Would you say that is not censorship? Fine, if you want to throw out that definition, but it becomes rather pointless since the word loses it's meaning but the action stays the same.

It's funny that I received much praise and rep for a post where I talked about how people commonly misuse Irony, but I get flamed for doing the same for Acronym.

Don't get pissed off at me just because people don't know what the fuck they are talking about when they speak (type).

No, Freeone's policy is just that, its policy. Freeones offers a service and insists on enforcing its own set of rules. If I had a website that mandated that everybody end their posts by saying "Irishmen are cunts", would that be censorship?

Voluntary censorship is an oxymoron.

The abuse of a word or term doesn't amend its definition. If that was the case, "to" would now mean "also".

 

[CurtJa]

I feel lucky to live in a Scandinavian country in this respect. I have always wondered howcome americans tolerate a system that defends censorship and moral majority in so many ways. You find it in music, movies, tv, and I guess: everyday life! America produces so much porn that without it U probably would be down in a much deeper hole, economically. You can't show a pair of tits to young people - that's sooooo wrong. But you can have a gun and shoot the hell out of everyone who touches your damn lawn without being prosecuted. AND: often refer to Scandinavia as countries with socialistic tendencies, or whatever negative, claiming America as the most free country around! Now that can only make you laugh/weep depending on where you are!
Sorry if I offended anyone - not intented!

We have to keep the keep the bible thumpers and other assorted lot that get off to Mel Gibson snuff flicks happy.

Then again, everybody knows an exposed female nipple has the potential to turn any impressionable youth into a serial rapist, right?

 

[grower_boy]

The FCC has rules about words like "fuck", but not offensive words like the n-word.

This is why on rock radio, the word "fuck" is edited out of Buckcherry's "Crazy Bitch", but the word "fag" is not always edited out of Green Day's "Holdiay". One is considered obscene, and the other is just "deragratory".

 

[ildanese]

We have to keep the keep the bible thumpers and other assorted lot that get off to Mel Gibson snuff flicks happy.

Then again, everybody knows an exposed female nipple has the potential to turn any impressionable youth into a serial rapist, right?

Well, I might've forgotten 'bout those (like the ones who voted 4 a recent President yellin': "We'll hunt 'em folks down!"

and: thx for keepin' those types overthere...

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

Well, I might've forgotten 'bout those (like the ones who voted 4 a recent President yellin': "We'll hunt 'em folks down!"



and: thx for keepin' those types overthere...

Your welcome. Probably not enough room in your mud and fecal matter hut anyway.

 

[shayd]

What the french toast?