"You'd think some artists who do use the word 'fuck' every other second would get the point that people are just soooooooo tired of them being so vulgar. I mean really, you CAN be witty without saying 'fuck' all the time."
The problem being that the people who buy this stuff do think it's funny to say "fuck" every other second, and there are a lot of them...
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As for the movie industry's rating system, is that not voluntary? I'm all for preventing minors from obtaining explicit material without parental consent. I just think it's not the government's job, nor right.
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Indeed, and it's one of the things I was concerned about with Gore. Er ... probably the only thing. But ...
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Hell hath frozen over again.... Omega, I agree with you....
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Over here, it's up to the BBFC. I think they might be govenment controlled, since I remember ratings being changed on government orders.
Since the laws regarding ratings apply to under 18s, I'd say that it is the governments job, as much as banning ciggies for under 16s is.
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The ratings are given by the MPAA, but the enforcement of it is currently voluntary. Many of the states attorney generals (I worked for them once, that's how I know) try to get theatres to enforce the standards, and some states have made it a law. As for music, there is no standard age for purchasing something with a warning label on it (which is the only discerning factor for music). TV ratings are provided, but it is up to the parents to decide whether or not they enforce them. The Michigan Attorney General had a problem with the Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue a couple of years ago (some nudity), and filed that under the same law as nudie mags (now they have to card people for them.
Seems like there is some improvements that can be made for censorship.
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Little Timmy probably hears more cuss words from his father and his playmates at school than he hears in these 'awful movies.'
If you don't want to listen to music of a certain type, or see a certain movie, don't. If you don't want your kids to, don't let them. And tell them why. And punish them if they disobey. That's your job as a parent.
Censorship, though, is telling MY kids what they can't see/hear, and that's MY job, and I don't want anybody else doing it.
If you don't want Timmy looking up pictures of nekkid wimmin on the computer, WATCH him. Don't use the Internet as a babysitter. That's not what it's for.
If you don't want Timmy playing DOOM, don't buy it. Or don't give him the CD.
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Incidentally, it's starting to look as though the stolen keys were only the tip of a vandalism iceberg.
It's funny, you know. James Carville calls W. a "frat boy," but whose people behave like a fraternity, trashing the place before they leave?
You know, this kind of behavior just shows the TOTAL lack of respect and reverence these people had for what the White House is supposed to stand for, and the people who came before them.
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You know, this kind of behavior just shows the TOTAL lack of respect and reverence these people had for what the White House is supposed to stand for, and the people who came before them
Er ... First, are you forgetting that the Bush/Quayle people trashed the place in '92 and the Clinton/Gore people had to clean up after them? So, if Republicans do it, fine, it gets ignored ... Democrats do it and they're disrespectful?
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Nope, I remember hearing something about it 8 years ago, and then someone else mentioned it here which jogged my memory.
Speaking of which ...
Incidentally, it's starting to look as though the stolen keys were only the tip of a vandalism iceburg
Can you cite this?
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