we can and do say fuck without any problem.
Not on public TV you can’t. Beep beep beep Fucking idiots.
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orclev@lemmy.world 4 months agoThere’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.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
orclev@lemmy.world 4 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 4 months ago
tvguide.com/…/tv-censorship-nudity-profanity/
swear words that are still taboo on broadcast TV to this day – ended up causing the highest court to rule that the Federal Communications Commission had the authority to regulate what viewers see on broadcast media.
orclev@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah that entire article basically agreed with everything I said. Technically broadcast TV does have some limitations enforced by the FCC (because it uses radio to transmit) even to this day, but broadcast TV is basically dead. I actually thought they had shut those stations down a few years ago, but I guess they’re still around. Regardless there are absolutely no government regulations that control what’s shown on cable and streaming services. 100% of censorship that occurs there is a business decision by the TV Networks and has absolutely nothing to do with the government.
Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 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 4 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 4 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.
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Ahh ok
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 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.