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Comment on How come on TV I can Oh God with no censor. I can say dammit and no censor. But if I put them both together and say GodDammit one of the words will be censored?

AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Because “goddamnit” is a blasphemy, and the vast majority of laws in the world were written by religious zealots of one stripe or another.

Not really logical, but that’s humanity for you.

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MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Hey now, don’t rope the rest of us in with the USA’s bizarro puritanical approach to TV censorship. You can blaspheme to your heart’s content on TV in the UK.

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- AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I said laws in general, not TV censorship.
  
  We’ve got plenty of issues in the US, but let’s not pretend the UK is a bastion of freedom in the world.
  
  I can still wear a “From the River to the Sea” shirt in the US.
  
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