My god American regulation is so idiotic sometimes!!!
Dude, some person made that meme, and that person chose to use asterisks. It’s no more complicated than that.
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Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 months agohat’s it say? Go find yourself? Go Fill yourself? IDK is this some game you Americans have where you have to guess the word, because the amount of pearl clutching is just too insane?
Ah yes that’s the amazing freedom of speech Americans are so proud of, except they don’t actually have it, they are just indoctrinated to think so.
My god American regulation is so idiotic sometimes!!!
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
MacStache@programming.dev 6 months ago
What the f*** dude calm down.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You think that’s bad, get this. In most US states (47), students are required by law to(Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania), public school students are required by law to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States once per school day, though for most of those states students themselves may opt out.
However, in four states (Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Utah), students may not opt themselves out. The school must receive a written statement from a parent or guardian in order to be exempt.
I have taught in Texas public schools since 2005, and I brought this up with an attorney for the teacher organization I joined (not a union as Texas bans collective bargaining for state employees, so our dues are really not much more than lawsuit insurance). He told me that, in the eyes of the state courts, children under the age of eighteen not being yet adults do not enjoy the same right to freedom of speech that adults do. Hence, in the eyes of the courts, a school district would be within their rights to fire a teacher who does not do their part to ensure all students under their purview recite the Pledge during the time it is spoken over the school’s PA system (and the Pledge to the Texas state flag, also mandatory), 1st Amendment be damned.
Thankfully, I got a gig teaching in Oregon next year, so I am heading northwest (through the also miserable states of Utah and Idaho unfortunately) and never looking back.
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ah Texas, where children can’t make decisions or be held accountable in any way, unless they’re brown skinned and can be accused of a crime, then they must he tried as adults and sentenced to life as an imprisoned slave.
Jakdracula@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This Oregon?
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You don’t want to play this game with me, son. Whatever you hurl at me about Oregon, I’ll lob back at you something twice as bad about Texas.
I get that Oregon has its hard right people. Hell, most states do. But at least my trans kids gender identity is protected by state law, and my having trans kids won’t result in me being on the governor’s fucking hit list.
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re reading into things way too much here, man.
razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What are you talking about? There is no law or regulation requiring that text to be censored. They did it because they wanted to.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Welcome to the hypocritical world of Puritan culture.
Some of the earliest British settlers in the US were so extremist that the Church of England kicked them out after they tried to assassinate the king and replace him with a puppet of their own to force their beliefs on the rest of the country.
It was partly these crazies that started the whole sex and bodies=bad and shameful thing in the US that advertisers still believe in today. And swearing is yet another of those weird things. But sex sells, so it’s okay to imply it as long as it’s selling a product and no other time.
satanmat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“For the children “ …. Like none of them have ever heard bad words…. They must be protected at all cost.
Like a person who likes to grab them by the pussy…
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes and they may actually reelect that criminal traitor malignant narcissist SOB! .
That’s the the country that refuses to regulate guns to protect their children, but won’t allow words to be said for you!!It’s absolute insanity.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Swear words? Boobs? Hell nah
Someone getting shot ten times? PG-13
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I think it’s hilarious that there are swear budgets for various ratings. I’m pretty sure adults can tell whether a movie is intended for kids or not, and they’re the most sensitive to foul language.
I personally choose to not swear, but I watch and listen to plenty of content with vulgar language of all varieties, it really doesn’t bother me, so I don’t see why it’s so taboo in movie ratings…
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
except they don’t actually have it, they are just indoctrinated to think so.
What are we not allowed to say, exactly?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ha you don’t even know, that so funny. Look up freedom of speech index, and see the difference to countries that have better freedom of speech than USA.
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Which still has fuck-all to do with the asterisks in the picture, because the creator put those there himself
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
I didn’t ask about any indices, I asked what you think we’re not allowed to say.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For instance in schools you are not allowed to talk about gender identity in some states.
Often you are not allowed to teach about slavery either.
One school banned a graphic novel Maus about holocaust despite it has won a Pulitzer.
Aaron Swartz was persecuted by authorities to the point of suicide for legally copying and trying to make information available to the public, that should by definition of the terms they were kept, be available to the public.The terrorist acts has secret courts giving secret organisations power to silence companies on for instance when information is demanded on users by companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft Apple, also when the demands are illegal by normal law, generally because they are too wide. This is monitored by a secret club in congress. This is what Obama called a “balanced” approach.
Failure to respect these secret courts, will result in you being judged by same secret courts!!!
Censored@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Say stupid things, people treat you like you’re stupid, stupidly cry about how freedom of speech should prevent people from treating you like the idiot you are.
orclev@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s no regulation, we can and do say fuck without any problem. Some people prefer not to swear either for personal, social, or religious reasons. They chose to self censor not because they had to but because they wanted to. You’re reading an awful fucking lot into a random ass image some anonymous user posted in a comment.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Can confirm, am American and try to avoid swearing, not because there are penalties (friends, coworkers, etc swear all the time), but because I don’t like swearing. I find it makes me an angrier person, so I just don’t do it.
If you want to swear, go for it, it really won’t offend me. But I won’t swear in return. Different strokes for different folks.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not on public TV you can’t. Beep beep beep Fucking idiots.
orclev@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You can, most networks just decide not to. Broadcast TV (which hasn’t really existed for I think more than a decade now) had restrictions about swearing (and other content) enforced by the FCC as it used a public good (RF frequency). Cable TV (and now streaming services) are and pretty much have always been unregulated.
TV Networks, being companies trying to make money, opt to self censor so as to appeal to the largest number of viewers, but that isn’t anything to do with the government, it’s 100% a business decision.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
tvguide.com/…/tv-censorship-nudity-profanity/
Eldritch@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or if you’re someone who uses speech to text on your phone. Nearly every system that I’ve ever used asterisks out everything after the first letter. It can be a lot of extra effort to go back and fill the fucks in. But if there’s one fucking thing worth doing fucking right. Fucking filling out those fat fucking fucks is fucking it. It’s one of the most fucking versatile words on the planet. It can be a fucking adjective, one of the most versatile verbs no matter what fucked up tense you choose, and even a motherfucking noun.
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Sorry your phone/ textingapp does what? What app/ phone do you use? Ive never encountered or even heard about it
mzesumzira@leminal.space 6 months ago
They’re not talking about texting apps, it’s keyboards and speech to text engines that often have a profanity filter, which usually is on by default.
I disable it on everything every time I change phones or format, but not everybody tinkers with settings.
You probably default to a keyboard without profanity filter.