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Originally posted by taxwonk
Ten years ago, my favorite radio station didn't have to beep out the word "shit" or similar words appearing in some songs. Now they do it regularly. It's not a major intrusion in my life, but, then again, the people who forced the change didn't listen to the Clash, Pearl Jam, or Eric Burdon then and they don't now.
I find it ridiculous that a movie shown on a basic cable station has to be hacked up but if it's on HBO, it's not censored.
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But both of these things were going on during the Clinton administration as well (though, perhaps not a your local radio station). At the same time, by all studies, network TV is now racier/contains more sexual references and uses more "bad" words than ever before. Growing up, you never heard words on network TV like "bitch," "ass," etc.
Look, you will be hard pressed to find a person more against censorship then I am, but the premise was that it is the result the rise of the social conservatives, and I'm just not buying that.
