TV and the censorship thereof is so fucked up.

[flvegan]

I'm clicking through, and American History X is on. Great flick. Love that flick.

So anyway, they've cut out the usual suspects: shit, fuck, etc.

But, in the last 2 minutes they cut the word "hell" twice but left the ni**er word in a number of times. "Hell"? Like what the hell is censored, but calling someone a ni**er is okay. Whatever.

WTF? If it's for effect, okay I guess. The movie is about douchebag racism and hate. I just doubt it. I'm actually kind of pissed about it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear flvegan!

I think the broadcast censorship is ridiculous...

Maybe they should have a 2 or 3 hour time slot in the evening when the kids might be watching...

But all the cable channels have no censorship on their language anytime!

WTF?

Crazyness abounds...

[DarkTirade]

2. Most censorship is stupid.

But TV censorship is government sponsored stupidity. So it's stupid with an extra dash of stupid on top.

[fizzgig]

3. i noticed something similar when they showed forrest gump on the history channel a few months ago

they left in the 'n' word, but edited 'christ' out of jesus christ

it made no damn sense

[XemaSab]

4. Considering that the movie opens with Ed Norton a**f***in Fairuza Bailuk (sp?)

I can't imagine they could sanitize that film for broadcast TV at all.

[LeftyMom]

5. They do that on the radio.

Censor out the most mild profanities and even indirect references to things that could be profane- ones that used to be permitted- and yet leave in songs with really sexist themes, no problem. So I sit there scratching my head "okay, it's okay to have a whole song about fucking an underaged hooker in a bathroom stall, but a metaphorical dick reference isn't allowable. :wtf: "

[LeftyFingerPop]

6. You're right

Those f###%$g bas33rds have a lot of g333amn b$lls censoring that f$$$%%g sh*t.