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[Gonzo]

Now I know Dave's uses an "auto-censor" to prevent abusive and objectionable language appearing on a public forum, and fair enough.
But I feel the controls are set just a tad too high. I used the word "p-e-n-i-s" in an earlier post. Not to describe a fellow poster BTW; I think I can do better than that. It was about men pissing in public. What does a man piss with? I ended up having to say "willy" or "weiner", or something pathetically childish. Most children can say this word without giggling or blushing.
So, what's the view? Ease back the auto-censor controls, Dave's management?
Hope this thread doesn't get censored

[denise]

Funnily enough, another recent thread on censorship is mysteriously missing... Good luck with this one!

To the moderators--what was so objectionable about the previous thread on censorship?

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[James_T_Kirk]

Holy shit Denise, you are fucking right! The other thread regarding censorship has disappeared! When did John Ashcroft become a moderator? This censorship stuff is bullshit!

Cheers,
Kirk

P.S.- What I find amusing is despite the censors, everyone knows exactly what I originally typed before it was beeped out...since this is the case, what exactly is the point of these censors? Is seeing *beep* in the context of bullsh*t somehow less offensive?

[richard ame]

Hi

I think the whole thing about controlling what we want to say in a colourful way is stifiling our right to express ourselves as adults . Having said that we could of course invent a new language which is not on Daves censorship list for example I use the word umbrella to take the place of the dreaded F word it works quite well or try chuffing thats ok too perhaps we can put a sticky up to highlight the "forbidden " vocab and their substitutes .

[Sara Avalon]

[Steiner]

[Steiner]

And Sara Avalon, how is talking about Charles D*ckens, Emily D*ickinson, an airplane's c*ckpit, or a c*cker spaniel considered swearing? But you just try typing any of those words without the asterisks and see what happens.

I don't mind the censorship. It's the stupid stuff that's, well....um, stupid.

Let's have logical censorship. It's much better than arbitrary censorship. Yes, no censorship is best, but I'd be happy with a step in the right direction.

[Gonzo]

Sara Avalon, the point I was making was that I WASN'T swearing, but got censored all the same. It's the mentality that says that the human body is "dirty', this puritan way of thinking, that irks me. And others, I think.

[Lanza-Armonia]

[sidjameson]

I agree with censorship. So much so that I am going to censor myself. Instead of using that disgusting word f,u.c;k I am going to invent a new word. How about pluff?
Yes that's it. Lets all use pluff. Pluff off. I feel pluffed. Sara, do you wanna pluff? There I think we have found a way to make the world a nicer, cleaner, more polite place.
Oh hang on a minute, if we all use the word pluff and everybody understands it's meaning. It's gonna be censored.

[gugelhupf]

What I object to very strongly is having syllables of perfectly innocent words bleeped out. C.ocktail party anyone?

[sidjameson]

Thinking it further, it seems to me that it isn't therfore the word that people object to it's the idea.

[Lanza-Armonia]

C.ocktail party huh? It wounds so mid 1950's high class Britain. If you ask a modern, averaged intelligence 20 year old what a c.ocktail party is today, s/he will give you a slightly more enlightening answer, hence the censorship <?>

LA

[gugelhupf]

[Lanza-Armonia]