Has censorship gone too far?

[WhiteXFire]

So, I'm sitting here watching Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls on TBS. If you are familiar with the movie, you should know the scenes I am about to reference. Towards the beginning of the movie, Ace is taken to the consolate to be briefed on his assignment. They go into a room where he is shown some slides by a projector, and he starts making shadow puppets on the screen. THEY CUT OUT THE SCENES THAT SHOW HIS SHADOW PUPPET ATTACKING THE GUY'S CROTCH! All they showed were the reactions from the people in the room. Later on in the movie, he's inside a robotic rhino and it gets very hot, so he's forced to push his way out of the rhino through it's rubber rear end. THEY CUT OUT ALL OF THE SCENES THAT SHOW HIM COMING OUT OF THE RHINO!! Once again all they showed were the reactions of the tourists and Ace once he is out of the rhino.

What has this world come to when we can't even show shadow puppets on regular television!!?!?!!? I mean, it's not like he was doing a shadow puppet of a large boob with a nipple ring... :screwy: :bs:

[TROLL]

i'm so glad this has nothing to do with the forum, haha.

yeah sometimes the censor stuff thats pretty tame, including lyrics on the radio. but at the same time sometimes they allow stuff that i find pretty offensive (recently heard the N word on the radio from a caller... not a fan). and sometimes there's cursing on network TV on some of those prime time shows. its kinda weird... i think they do their best to standardize it but they arent perfect and sometimes things get overcensored and sometimes others get undercensored.

bryan

[sfd]

lol ive been watching that too. cant sleep. havent seen ace in forever.

[LSHatch]

That's TBS for you. Comedy Central, Spike and others seem to be trying to push the limits.

I like Comedy Central after prime time. All curses, all night. ahha.

[WhiteXFire]

That's TBS for you. Comedy Central, Spike and others seem to be trying to push the limits.

I like Comedy Central after prime time. All curses, all night. ahha.
Yeah, I'm amazed sometimes what South Park gets away with saying and showing, but I love it!

[LSHatch]

I don't remember what word they were saying, but it was either S**t or B**tch. And they counted how many times they said it in the episode. It was hilarious.

[wonner]

I don't remember what word they were saying, but it was either S**t or B**tch. And they counted how many times they said it in the episode. It was hilarious.
They said **** 162 times. Ridiculously funny.

{do not dodge the swear filter.-PETE}

[97TurboDSM]

haha comedy central was awesome on saturday night..Eddie Murphy stand up comedy on at like 130am COMPLETELY UNCENSORED!

[BlackBulletTSi]

haha comedy central was awesome on saturday night..Eddie Murphy stand up comedy on at like 130am COMPLETELY UNCENSORED!

YEA I watched it I was laughing all night it was great.

[ScoobyNubieToo!]

I know exactly what ya mean. I was watching American Pie 2 the other day on TBS and in the scene where Stifler gets pissed on by the Harold + Kumar guy, they cut so much out you couldn't even tell what the hell happened.

[smoger]

i hope you guys realize that on cable there is no censorship like there is on terrestrial radio and broadcast tv.(government regulations). the government can only regulate FREE broadcasts(although maybe someone should tell them tv's and radios arent free to begin with?).

any censorship on cable is purely done by the station itself for advertising reasons or to make the movie fit into a certain time slot.

so.. dont be suprised by the amount of stuff south park gets away with.. be suprised that most cable stations are too scared to give adults adult content.

this is why i have sirius radio now.. **** censorship!

[SilverTurboRidin]

i like comedy centrals secret stash!!

[G1GSX]

i don't think anything should be censored if you don't like it just don't listen to it or read it or watch it simple as that.

[Little G]

Yeah censorship sucks

[Silver04STi]

Try listening to terrestrial talk radio after listening to satellite talk radio. You'll realize just how bad the FCC makes it.

[yugotdonkey]

FCC is garbage. Look at HBO and Sirius, the most entertaining things (my opinion) on television and radio right now come out of these companies. FCC is the weakest of weaksauce. What a waste of our countries money, covering the eyes and ears of all the pussies in America. Don't like something on tv? Change the freakin channel! Don't want your kids to see certain things when there glued to the tv? Do something about it, its not up to the gov't to say earmuffs for us, some of us don't need earmuffs.

/rant of rants

[92talonTSI]

down with censorship

[snakeeyes]

funny irony

this is probably the most censored car forum i've ever run into

any curse word is forbidden like it's a girl's scout meeting

and you can't talk **** about anyone even when 99% of the time it's in good competitive cartalk fashion because we might hurt someone's feelings...and god forbid you should talk smack about subies

[ScoobyNubieToo!]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Letting consumers choose their subscription television channels would help shield children from inappropriate content and not necessarily lead to higher prices, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said on Tuesday.
Martin, speaking at a forum on television content, said the U.S. cable and satellite television industry is not doing enough to help protect their children and per-channel pricing, known as a la carte, "could be in consumers' best interests."
His view contradicts a study the FCC issued last year that said allowing consumers to pay for only the channels they want could lead to higher charges, a position endorsed by the cable industry. Martin, citing a new FCC study, says the initial report was flawed.
The FCC chief also suggested providers like Comcast Corp. and News Corp.'s DirecTV could offer "family-friendly" packages of channels or apply broadcast decency standards to subscription television.
"Thus far, there has been too little response" from the industry, Martin said. "I think the industry needs to do more to address parents' legitimate concerns." But he declined to endorse a specific solution.
Oppenheimer & Co. analysts said a la carte choice would cut cable revenue and cash flow. Legg Mason analysts said the risk of a la carte being imposed was low.
"Nonetheless," Legg Mason said in a report, "we continue to believe the cable industry will feel the pressure both from the FCC and from some powerful forces in Congress ... to do something, perhaps voluntarily, to reduce the perceived problem."
The cable industry has warned that restrictions might violate free speech rights and say providers have offered consumers the ability to block unwanted channels.
The industry has also said a la carte could squeeze out niche channels and could also roil advertising revenue.
Advertising sales at Walt Disney Co.'s popular ESPN sports channels, for example, thrive on actual viewer numbers. Under a la carte there would likely be fewer casual ESPN viewers as some subscribers would choose not to pay for ESPN alone.
RAISING FINES, CENSORSHIP?
Much of the attention on decency was sparked in early 2004 when pop singer Janet Jackson briefly bared her bejeweled breast on broadcast television. Congress has been weighing legislation to boost fines on broadcasters to as much as $500,000 per incident from the current $32,500.
Federal rules bar broadcast TV and radio from airing obscene material. They also limit certain content, like sexually explicit or profanity-laden shows, to late-night hours when children are unlikely to be in the audience.
No restrictions apply to cable and satellite providers. Some lawmakers are considering changing that, though there are questions that it may violate free speech rights.
Some broadcasters have heeded warnings to limit the material they air, by briefly delaying live events while others nixed airing some programs.
"We're not involved in this to bring about censorship," said Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. Ted Stevens (news, bio, voting record), an Alaska Republican. Still, "parents have a right to try to protect their children from some of the things that they can run into in the media."
Stevens said he hoped the industries would adopt a voluntary ratings standard while lawmakers would try to formulate a bill by January.
But Kyle McSlarrow, who heads the National Cable & Telecommunications Association said that "any government mandates, and certainly for any one of those options (suggested by Martin), in our view is very clearly under Supreme Court precedent a violation of the First Amendment."
Hey Congress, I gotta novel F**KING idea.....how about making PARENTS responsible for controlling what children watch on TV. I'm 30 years old.....I pay for Cable TV so I can hear and see adult things. The future is going to turn into a watered down frigging version of the Brady Bunch.

[WhiteXFire]

funny irony

this is probably the most censored car forum i've ever run into

any curse word is forbidden like it's a girl's scout meeting

and you can't talk **** about anyone even when 99% of the time it's in good competitive cartalk fashion because we might hurt someone's feelings...and god forbid you should talk smack about subies
Except that it's a privately owned forum, and as such he's entitled to run it however he wants. It's like going into a bar and the owner saying that smoking is forbidden...if you want to smoke, you'll simply go to another bar.

BTW, I like how the poll is 28-0, haha. Did anyone else see the frenzy being started over Mischa Barton's boob falling out of her nightie in a shot during the OC last week? She was sitting up out of bed in the dark and the camera from the back angle caught her right breast slipping out of the top of the negiglee for literally a second if that long.
http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/3468795
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/366383p-311885c.html
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2684099

[95SC2]

well i know they dont really edit some shows on FX, if u have ever seen "The Shield" then u know what i mean

[On Sale]

i was listening to the radio last night, i believe it was 102.1 and they had live on air freestyles. Some of the people where lil flip, p diddy, and sheek louch... but they were live, uncensored. i hear the N word, like 50000 times, i heard almost every other word you could think of, it was crazy, i had to check the radio, and make sure it was actually the radio, for a minute, i was like wait, what cd is this??? lol. i was very suprised, and woudnt be shocked if they got heavy fines. it was pretty cool tho, i like live freestyles on the radio, they laugh and ish.... its great.

[TehWagon]

too lazy to read the thread, but, isn't it the fCc?

[WhiteXFire]

too lazy to read the thread, but, isn't it the fCc?
:confused:
http://www.fcc.gov/

**Edit, oh, hahahaha, I just noticed what you mean, i have a typo, D'OH!!