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by solistice on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:09AM
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Analogous to that, in Germany don't beep out any swearwords on television, which is why American celebrities appearing on TV here swear vedammt oft. For example this eminem interview
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98y4u_eminem-interview-on-...
It's at 2:30 where he talks about it. And swears a "little".
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by hfsktr on Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:28PM
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That brightened my day considerably.
When I watch Misfits (UK show) they say some things that I never hear on American shows. It only happens on shows that are after the watershed[1] though. Before then I don't know which parts are censored.
It always amuses me a little how Americans seem to be more strict than the Europeans for media censoring.
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by coldtea on Thursday April 18, 2013 @06:07PM
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Yes. And nobody flinched much when this happened in France, and a few decades ago at that:
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by mhartl on Thursday April 18, 2013 @12:18PM
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Until someone mentions Nazis, that is.
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by mhartl on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:42PM
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Since this has been downvoted, allow me to explain. The parent to my previous comment implies that Europeans are more tolerant of swearing than Americans, but they (or at least their governments) verge on paranoia when it comes to any mention of Hitler or the Third Reich.
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by icebraining on Thursday April 18, 2013 @06:31PM
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No, there's nothing against mentioning Hitler or the Third Reich. As it's well known in the Web, full movies about Hitler and the Third Reich have been made even in Germany, and they weren't banned or its producers arrested.
Perhaps because english is all it matters to them. Who in Europe, for example, even cares if a forum or chat has some swear words in his language?
We might be even more pissed off that we can't swear and leave the service, rather than complain about it.