Ridiculous censorshipFollow

We all know that MTV is trying to lose viewers. They've been trying to for the last few years, using crappy reality shows and overexcessive censorship to pretty much ruin the name Music Television. This time they're going too far with the censorship thing.

It's 01:32 AM and I turn on the TV to have some background music while I get ready for bed. MTV is showing the video to Timberlake and 50 Cent's new song, Ayo Technology, and I think it's a pretty good song so I turn up the volume a bit. At those hours you've got free **** on about three channels, one of which shows VH1 in the daytime, so I'm thinking the music videos will be uncensored as well, seeing as most kids are probably asleep and all.

Ohh no. No no.

The song is literally torn to **** by blank spaces in the song, put in where MTV found an offensive word. However, the person who decided which words were offensive must've been one hell of an orthodox baptist or something, because they blanked out the following words as well:

The way she shakin' make you want to hit it
Like a nympho, the info, I show you where to meet her

"Hit it" and "nympho" are naughty words indeed, MTV.

I'm tired of music getting censored in TV and on the radio. If the song is too offensive to play in its original state, DON'T ******* PLAY IT AT ALL! Shredding it to **** and putting it back together with a couple of dozen blank spaces makes the song sound like crap!

I think the height of idiocy was reached when I heard a censored version of Limp Bizkit's song Hot Dog. You could barely make out what he was singing due to all the f-words being censored out. Why would you play a censored version of a song where the f-word is being used so many times? Same goes for just about every rap song out there. They insist on playing them after they've torn them to pieces in an attempt to edit out all the naughty words.

Just don't do it, man. You're killing the music.

Hot Dog lyrics.

Those parts aren't censored here, stateside.





Good song.

Edited, Nov 3rd 2007 1:58am by MYteddy

Do they censor text on TV in your crazy country too?

Tsuki, where do you live? If there is another company like 4kids entertainment out there, I'm gonna start asking for donations to sponsor air-strikes on said over-bearing ********.

Wait, she's holding up a piece of paper? I assumed she was lifting up her shirt.

Not the first time that assumption has gotten me in trouble...

Kinda like trying to watch old episodes of South Park on this one local channel (well it might be more then local). Anyways it actually has screens come up informing people that this scene has been censored because it might not be suitable for all ages. For example every time Kenny is about to die (you know how the old episodes always killed kenny) they would completely censor that out.

The images there are from Japan. Even with the censoring, two of the four companies canceled the airing of the show. It's censored because they're in the third grade; even if someone looked like an eight-year-old but was stated earlier to be 17 (Moetan), it wouldn't be censored like that.

The DVDs will be uncensored, presumably.

Yes, the first one is of some calligraphy that she did. I used to have a picture of it from the manga, but admins are dumb and deleted it. The second image is of skirt-lifting being censored though.

DARKDOOM STFU

lolMTV. Their name as been ruined for like 15 years.

Maybe priorities are little different over in Europe, but if you've got three channels of free ****, why are you watching Justin Timerlake and .50?

You know, I still remember the days where making music videos was paractically an art; in that, people really appreciated a truely creative music video, Granted, I have strayed from watching MTV since TRL became its only source of music videos (and what a disaster that is) but it's honestly quite sad that the same television network that brought music videos to popularity in the US is the same one who has effectively killed it, as well.

The censorship aspect greatly bothers me, as well. Certain vulgar words (of the 4 letter variety) are understandable. Certain sexual references are, as well. But come on, "hit it" and "nympho" I agree with the OP, that is totally ludicrous. What's next? I agree, don't even play the song if it's so profane that you have to entirely omit half the song's lyrics anyway.

Honestly, you know America's children are hearing far worse things at school than MTV will ever play. The same beaurecrats who insist on censoring music are the same people trying to do it for video games, now. I'd rather parents choose what their children see and don't see, rather than the government or a corporation- but hey, that's just me.

Edited for typos...evidently 4am =/= conduscive to coherent typing.



Edited, Nov 4th 2007 4:35am by Alixana

The problem is most parents are too lazy to, you know, actually parent. They'd rather have the government do it for them.

I haven't heard the term nuclear family since 8th grade...

LMFAO!!! That is truth right there!

I've been trying to advocate MTV to change their name to CTV (Commercial Television and/or Crap Television), seeing as how you can watch MTV for an hour and have all your commercial needs filled for the next month. And the fact that MTV plays nothing but **** TV, I honestly think MTV is on a mission to completely dumbdown the world with it's crap programming. And I don't think MTV is going to rest until the entire planet has a combined IQ of 5, considering the **** programming and the 25 mins of commercials per every 30 mins they are on air.