lol they're not *bleep*ing the f bomb anymore?

After a certain hour, Comedy Central can air obscenities, as long as they put a disclaimer at the beginning.

Suprisingly I watched CCR of Joan Rivers late at night and although sh*t was played the F-word was bleeped.

Introduce her to your world of sex, drugs and what else do you do?-Kathryn Mertuil, Cruel Intentions

Rerun the night of this post's date, the only word that was bleeped was the second one of "Diet Coke"; perhaps the producers feared a lawsuit from the Coca Cola company, because the joke their product was attached to was raunchy, which makes absolutely no sense.

Better to point to the hypocrisy of the Comedy Central network, as well as most other cable-TV stations. Who is making the determination that it is perfectly fine to allow the dirty words after a certain hour, while censoring them at other times? Does that seem reasonable? After all, if these networks are guided by false morality and/or fear, and the idea is that the bad language will prove harmful in any way (presumably for the "children"; as if the sophisticated kids of our modern age can't access the saucy stuff by tuning in to the stations that do not censor, or even by videotaping the later-hour shows for next-day viewing), then why make it available at all? If something is genuinely harmful, it should never be made accessible, no matter when.

Naturally, the argument made here is that the harm factor is virtually nonexistent, and there should be no censorship; the stations that censor are insulting their viewers' intelligence. Fine cable stations such as TCM and IFC provide the uncut material (including that other bugaboo, nudity), and if nobody's brains have been warped as a result, it is obvious that the gamut of the other stations are only practicing the worst hypocrisy.

It's obvious that what is really behind such terrible censorship has nothing to do with morality, as the stations that do the censoring are often the ones with the commercials. These cowardly stations do not want to risk offending anyone, mainly the trivial but vocal extremist groups, who have learned to threaten a boycott of the advertisers. Thanks to this almost nonexistent danger, the stations operate out of fear and play it "safe" -- demonstrating one negative fallout from the process of Capitalism.

I make it a point to generally avoid the hypocritical commercial cable stations, such as TNT, TBS, AMC, and many others, save for the shows that can't be missed.
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