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At my school - I'm not joking - they used to censor any website with the word "nuclear" on it.
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Tell me you're joking, what kind of idiots are managing network in your school? :O</p>
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Tell me you're joking, what kind of idiots are managing network in your school? :O
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I know! Apparently we were all going to google how to make bombs or something, because you know how well that works. It was fixed after I told a friendly admin about it, but nevertheless, you have to wonder...</p>
<p>i remember in 7th grade some political person wanted to monitor what books kids were checking out. apparently if we were checking out books on Islamic cultures or places such as Israel or Syria, it meant we were terrorists. that year we were doing this huge report on exactly that. the monitoring books never actually happened though.</p>
<p>Censorship works great until you get to the teens and all the numbers get smudged together. Is a 11/12 year old too immature to see a PG-13 movie? Is a 15/16 year old really going to freak out over seeing an R movie? </p>
<p>But I must say, it's annoying to hear "clean" rap songs. Maybe I feel that way because I'm older, but eh</p>
<p>Just to point out the obvious, censorship only encoruages people to do those things, or learn about those things, or whatever. It's human nature to want what you can't have and do what you can't do.</p>
<p>^ Yeah. It feels like there's a reaason that things are censored, and I'm one of those people who wants to know what everything is like first hand. And of course, if it's censored, it's got to be more exciting. -_-;</p>
<p>The point of having movie ratings and deeming things 'inappropriate" isn't to keep kids away from stuff they don't understand, silentsailor. Obviously most 13 year olds can understand when characters are discussing various sexual acts. The point is that most 13 year olds haven't lived long enough to have the maturity to be able to process those discussions. They don't have enough life experience to take a graphic sex scene and understand it within the context of the "real world," therefore leading them to believe certain stereotypes about men and women and how regular people's sex lives operate.</p>
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The point is, kids aren't stupid. They won't (in most cases) read Harry Potter and jump off a roof, play Halo and kill someone, or watch Bruce Almighty and convert (or believe God is black).
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<p>God isn't white either. God's not humanlike in physical appearance. God has no gender. :)</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson was a Deist too ya know.</p>
<p>CONVERT</p>
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<p>THX</p>
<p>BYE</p>
<p>OVB, I have a question. If God has no Gender then why to people always refer to Him as He. He may not be human but I think that most would agree that he is at least male, or refered to as one.</p>
<p>I agree. God is male. But as to race....nobody really knows. Personally, I don't care. (Even though it'd be cool if He were Chinese.)</p>
<p>God has no gender because is isn't real.</p>
<p>^what isn't real? God or Genders??</p>
<p>be carefull or this thread might be censored!
lol, censorship on CC is usually pretty high.</p>
<p>And does it really make a difference what gender god is?</p>
<p>no it doesn't. it was just a question that popped up. yeah, why do they censor swer word on the forums? That sucks. and ****ed off is not a swer word!!!!!!</p>
<p>god is an idea. Simple as that. </p>
<p>As far as censorship goes, I think movie ratings are a good idea but often poorly assigned. Some censorship is needed for movies because there are parents out there who just don't care at all when they probably should. </p>
<p>I find myself censoring most of what I watch anyway, no more scary movies (used to be afraid of the dark :/ and I linked it to the scary movies I used to watch), nothing all that violent/gorey (just doesn't really appeal to me), and no ****ty reality TV. I guess the way I was raised just made it natural for me to dislike things that my mom would otherwise have to censor. I can't recall ever wanting to see/read something and not being allowed.</p>
<p>HAhaha,
so one last thing. Whenever my mom and I are watching a tv show or something and it makes a really obvious sexual reference, she'll pretend not to understand, "Okayyy, I don't get it, why is that even funny?" Haha what am I supposed to do? I just sit there and try to look confused. Or sometimes she'll say, "See, only guys would think that's funny, they're the ones who make up those dumb terms," refering to some sort of slang for something sexual. It's so awkward. It's not like she's even addressing me directly, only trying to react a certain way in hopes that I might miss the reference. It makes watching Conan O'Brien (amazing man/show) a little painful. :/</p>
<p>Hahahah yeah, thats what I do, too, because my family and I watch "Everybody Loves Raymond"... nothing really bad, but you get the idea :p</p>
<p>I'm for censorship. The last thing we need is to have a bunch of youngsters walking around saying swears and knowing about things they should not know about until they are older. Censorship = okay in my book :)</p>
<p>as long as it isn't too much. A little censorship is fine.
Try watching 'Unfaithful' or 'vanilla sky' without all the makout scenes and sex, they just cut out half the movie!!!</p>
<p>You live in the UAE...can you tell me if they even allow women to attend public sports events there? You should expect that type of censorship given the religious and political environment in which you live.</p>
<p>That "religios and political environment" is only in Saudi Arabia. In the rest of the gulf women are free to do whatever the hell they want, but most of the local women choose to cover up completely. And there are separate facilities everwhere for women (a women's section is all stadiums and a separate women's entrance) etc... there is no "religious and political environment" here</p>