Should swearing and nudity be censored on public entertainment mediums?
Should swearing be allowed on T.V. and radio?
Should nudity?
Why?
Yes
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No
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Swearing is fine if your 18 years of age freedom of speech applies to you. If you are not then you really cannot argue for the side of freedom of speech in this debate. You have to be 18 years old to see nudity legally anyway. Should it? Well somebody thinks so, and they are right. It pains me to see elementary school children saying all of the curse words that they shouldn't even know about, how do they know about these words? Sure they have heard them from their parents and definately from TV. I think that it should be censored until you are 17 years old and thats what it is now anyway. You can see rated R movies at 17 and there is a lot of nudity in some of those movies ; ] Side: yes
Well, I guess the swearing part has freedom of speech on it's side. But the purpose of freedom of speech is to give people a right to speak their opinions, it's not really about the way in which people say it. If you can't express you opinion without swearing then you have issues. What about the argument of "it's just a word" Well, If they are talking about what the word means for example the F word, then children definitely should not be exposed to it. And if those things are not censored then, guess what?.. ... Everyone will be exposed to it. Side: yes
Not unless your 18 =] you can yell FUCK in your gymnasium and teachers cant do anything about it ( FOS ) But I do not think that children should be exposed to any kinds of those obscenities. If you say ' its just a word ' then does that make it right to just say the F word anywhere at all times? Curse words really are not very good sentence enhancers and kids should not and do not deserve to be exposed to things like nudity and foul language. When they're 15+ have a ball!!! Side: yes
I support freedom of speech and all of that but there's also a certain boundary you don't cross when broadcasting something to a very large audience. It's pretty much just for the children and the weak hearted. They deserve the freedom to flip channels and not see man-dong or hear large amounts of salty sailor talk. Now, given the appropriate time(around midnight when children are asleep) and proper warning I believe there should be a lax on the censorship. Which is... how the system is set up right now anyways. Side: yes
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Hm, I'm not really sure. It might just be the vulgarity displayed by the words that make them so. I mean, if they didn't have blatantly horrible reputations, I'm sure it wouldn't be that way. But they do. I mean, me personally, I shoot my mouth off all the time because I don't really care. It's not an issue for me, but it might be for someone else. The words were originally used as curses which is why they're called curse words. Well not LITERALLY CURSES. But like "curse you!" Stuff like that. That and there's always the whole thing with the 'n' word. I honestly don't understand why black rappers think it's okay to just say that all the time. It's like urinating on themselves. Literally. If the word didn't have a history tethered to Africans being beaten brutally and forced to do manual labor I'm sure it would be fine to say all the time. Then again, it does have that history. Side: yes
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the reason why i hate the "it's just a word" argument is because... Nigger and Kyke are also just words. I've never seen a black person die after i've said Nigger... so why is it so bad? maybe because we just NEED a bad word for everything. so when it's said, you know it's serious business. Side: yes
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I don't get the censoring nudity part. For example, one may argue that swearing creates a bad social setting. But nudity? One may try to argue that nudity would create a sexually charged atmosphere. But I've seen an entire European family get totally naked at the beach in order to put on their bathing suits. The males in that family were not sexually charged (if you get my drift). And the other males on the beach shouldn't have been sexually charged either. I mean, most people are ugly, which is why we favor attractive people so much. If most people were attractive, then attractiveness wouldn't be the big deal that it is. Having said all of that, the people that would get sexually charged out of a normal nudity setting are deviants. For example, you see people having sex, yeah, you're gonna get turned on. You see a woman putting on her bra and you get turned, you're a deviant. BTW, I have an account on that site too ;) Side: No
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What is the point of blocking certain words from viewers? What are we trying to hide? Why do people care in the first place about one word that is considered "taboo" to be said. The whole idea of censoring words is similar to censoring certain movements. If someone lifts up their arm and raises their middle finger, this is understood as offensive. Pointing at someone is considered "rude." So what happens when I stick my arms out and spin around? If I do this trying to be offensive, should everyone else understand it as offensive? I doubt they would. This is an argument that has been made before, but is important, and I believe that this argument should not be forgotten. There are certain collections of sounds; certain collections of movements, which in certain cultures, are offensive. As for nudity; kind of the same idea. We're all born with one of two sets of parts. About half of the people on Earth have one set, and about half have another set. Should I not be allowed to see something because I don't have it? It's part of the human body. And once you see it once, what's the point of censoring it again? You've already seen it, so what are they protecting you from there? I don't get it. If someone feels that they can explain it to me, go ahead. Either reply to me here or leave a message on my profile, but either way, I'm serious. I really have no clue why people blindly agree with these preconceptions. Side: No
as someone who enjoys nudes and swearing, I would hate the elimination of censorship in PRIMETIME because it would take all the fun out of it. Porn get less and less exciting as it is because there is so much sex everywhere. Imagine if sex was on tv ALL THE TIME... porn would just be... penetration. we'll be desensitized. as for swearing, swear words are powerful because of their "bad word" status. Once they become mainstream and acceptable, they'll be just as effective as freakin' or shoot. Side: yes
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Take all the fun out of it? How? You're the same person! If you like it and see it so much, you think you'd have been desensitized to it before. So you enjoy the porn due to the excitement? If all it becomes in the future is... penetration, then so what? Who cares? It is a natural act, but I'm getting off course, here. This is about nudity and swearing, not sex. I understand why the bad words are so powerful, but, I mean, if we go by your system, how long is this going to take? These words have been around for ages, but people will still get mad at you and it still has that "bad factor" that they had back years and years ago. Side: No
I agree with you, all this censorship is artificial and doesn't refer to anything real. It's just in the head of who sees, so it comes down to a matter of tolerance. Some are offended by bad words; others are offended by images of dead people, bombs and destruction, but no one is taking them out of the news. All kinds of censorship are purely cultural, and as such, are not there because they are the best thing for us, but because of a tradition that takes time to change. I have some male Muslim friends who go abroad and get overwhelmed by all the female skin they are able to see. Was it better for them to grow up without seeing a girl's skin and hair? Or were they deprived of some important understanding of the world? The same can be argued about the occidental views on nudity. Our bodies are part of nature. Our way of reproducing too. Side: No
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The core of this can be exposed by simply switching the complaint around, the argument goes like this... I want my children to grow up fully informed about the way the world is. I want their transition into adulthood to be as easy as possible and it is my view that showing casual nudity and swearing as they grow up is the most painless way for them... Thats it. Oh ye most people I know who have been brought up sheltered from nudity and swearing seem to end up demonising themselves for things that come naturally to them, it may be coincidence but i'm not so sure. Side: No
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