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Okay i was watching Lopez tonight and i heard him say sh!t and it made it passed the censors. It reminded me of meet the spartans which used sh!t repeatedy and they were rated 14/Pg respectivly.

Are words like that slowly making it passed the censors? last time i remember sh!t wasn't a word that was supposed to make it passed censors when its rated 14/PG. Discuss naow.
 
American cable networks are outside of regulatory jurisdiction of the FCC, and censorship is at the discretion of the cable operators (in this case it's TBS, which I know allows "shit" to be said after a certain hour).

And I think that word is fair game for PG-13 movies, and pretty much always has been.
 
If I remember correctly, I remember that the word 'bitch' was uncensored in South Park (well, obviously) and Family Guy. But then again, I could be wrong...since it's been so long since I watched it, and I don't even watch TV as much a I used to back in the old days. However, both of the shows I mentioned do censor certain words, so it's not like we can do anything about it.
 
Lord Scalgon said:
If I remember correctly, I remember that the word 'bitch' was uncensored in South Park (well, obviously) and Family Guy. But then again, I could be wrong...since it's been so long since I watched it, and I don't even watch TV as much a I used to back in the old days. However, both of the shows I mentioned do censor certain words, so it's not like we can do anything about it.
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I believe "*****" has been able to be said on American Primetime hours for at least two years. Its been used on "House" for about that long.
 
zipzap713 said:
I believe "*****" has been able to be said on American Primetime hours for at least two years. Its been used on "House" for about that long.
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Hell, I've been seeing it on commercials now!

Edit: What a waste of my 3,333th post.
 
noobers said:
American cable networks are outside of regulatory jurisdiction of the FCC, and censorship is at the discretion of the cable operators (in this case it's TBS, which I know allows "shit" to be said after a certain hour).

And I think that word is fair game for PG-13 movies, and pretty much always has been.
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Yeah some networks don't always censor stuff after a certain hour...

I've heard that in PG-13 movies the word f*ck is only allowed to be said once, but I'm not entirely sure if that's true.

I don't ever think I'm heard the work bitch censored, and a*s only occasionally. I know on shows like South Park and Family Guy, they only censor the "hole" part of the word "a*shole".

rofl was this thread made just for users to constantly evade the swear censors?
 
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The Renowned Obscurity said:
I've heard that in PG-13 movies the word fuck is only allowed to be said once, but I'm not entirely sure if that's true.
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It's a maximum of three, non-sexual, exclamatory uses of the word. Although it was used in some PG movies because the PG-13 rating didn't exist at the time the movie was released.
 
The Renowned Obscurity said:
rofl was this thread made just for users to constantly evade the swear censors?
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I sure hope not. The filters are there for a reason, and the directive coming from above is that they should not be evaded. If it happens a lot, I'll have to just close the thread. I'd rather not infract for every cuss I see, so having a breeding ground for them is only going to create problems for all of us.

I don't particularly know of any definite censorship laws, and I don't particularly care. It sucks hearing cusses more and more frequently, so I just don't pay attention to them.
 
noobers said:
It's a maximum of three, non-sexual, exclamatory uses of the word. Although it was used in some PG movies because the PG-13 rating didn't exist at the time the movie was released.
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It seems that the PG-13 rating was established in 1984, and Spaceballs, which did indeed use the word "Fuck" came out in 1987.

Not sure what this means, just that it happened
 
during some late night shows and movie channels, i noticed that they don't censor out anything!
i saw porky's (-_-) on a regular cable station, and it showed everything!

oh, and south park. when it first came out on a local station here (KCAL 9), they got away with a lot of words. i guess a lot of people complained because a lot of the words are censored or replaced now.
 
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Roseliamelia said:
oh, and south park. when it first came out on a local station here (KCAL 9), they got away with a lot of words. i guess a lot of people complained because a lot of the words are censored or replaced now.
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Well, it's pretty obvious that South Park is rated MA (for mature viewers only). You can see the TV rating on the top-left of your TV screen when a show starts (and it happens on just about every other show).
 
What's really strange about southpark is that they censor 'hole' when someone says *** hole.
 
I've never understood censoring some stuff. Fuck and shit are perfectly harmless words. Yet racial and other slurs are permitted with abandon. What, exactly, are we really hurt by?
 
Roseliamelia said:
during some late night shows and movie channels, i noticed that they don't censor out anything!
i saw porky's (-_-) on a regular cable station, and it showed everything!
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It's because after 9, broadcasters don't have to censor anything. It's something like between the hours of 7 am and 9 pm certain words have to be censored. Can't remember exactly though.
 
I think the most interesting censors are on the radio. I mean, it varies from station to station, but you would be surprised by some of the words they aren't allowed to play.

This one song called 'Toes' has the word fat censored. Of course, in context, it refers to a joint ("Roll a big fat one"), but it just seems odd that that needs to be censored. In some other song, I know that the word 'drugs' was censored, but doesn't it just seem weird that radios have to be so much more careful than television?
 
This one song called 'Toes' has the word fat censored. Of course, in context, it refers to a joint ("Roll a big fat one"), but it just seems odd that that needs to be censored. In some other song, I know that the word 'drugs' was censored, but doesn't it just seem weird that radios have to be so much more careful than television?
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Funny story about that. In England we have a (rubbish) music channel called Scuzz which likes to think that it plays all sorts of really heavy stuff and is sticking it to the establishment and all the other cute things idiots say. Anyways, they censor the word hash from the Weezer song Hashpipe, which in itself if pretty silly, but the really stupid part comes when they show the graphics displaying the song name where they don't censor it at all.
 
BlueMew7 said:
What's really strange about southpark is that they censor 'hole' when someone says *** hole.
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It's because 'ass' is permitted, even on network. In The Office Michael calls Ryan an a-hole over the webcam, and only the 'hole' part is censored, for example.
 
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