Are we not getting too fussy online?

Perhaps, it is about time to cool off all this online censorship of blogs and their content by both advertisers and blogging platform providers - like Google, ...especially.

Prime time television is now littered with programs that can be described as more loose tongued than circumspect. Check this out - More Than Ever, You Can Say That on Television.

So, why the heat online, where children should be supervised, one way or the other by physical parental presence or remote monitoring or controlling gadgetry?

Anyway, even many of these pre-teen 'children' that the censors are trying to protect are no longer really kids - many of them can do more on the computer than many adults today.

Or is it sensitive adults that are being protected then? If so, how many of them are there and how many of those are online?

Can you believe even this? How could $1,900 vehicle license plates - like F4 GOT and D1 KES - be wasted and considered offensive?

Unless, of course, a dirty mind has already reconstructed it to mean 'faggot' and 'dykes'..... What's the relationship?

In this post-ET - the Extra-Terrestrial - and moon-water prospecting era, perhaps such adults should just get off online and queue up for the latest Black Friday deals on small LCD and big plasma televisions instead?

At least, with a cable connection, there would be a 'parental control' button - for their own aged or ancient parents...

Yes, parenting is not a day's job, it is a life long journey - even many grandparents are still learning.


UPDATE:

By the way, I must add a little correction at this point, with regard to this article cited above.

It states as follows in an excerpt: "....The use of the word, “bitch,” for example, tripled in the last decade alone, growing to 1,277 uses on 685 shows in 2007 from 431 uses on 103 prime-time episodes in 1998......"

I couldn't disagree more strongly with the writer, who obviously failed to notice that the trend was actually in the reverse direction.

Yes, the volume data clearly shows, in my own humble opinion that censorship was still significant on television.

It may be correct to say that the the number of occurrences increased, but it is also true that the total number of shows monitored in 2007 was significantly more than in 1998 - it actually sextupled! Ha-ha.....