[dude2204]

I think that when we have to pay for a channel just to see this stuff, our best interest has already been considered by ourselves. The government just wants to keep this stuff away from kids, but if parents were competent at all, there is no way any kid would see this stuff. Its like all the people that complain about the content of shows on after 8 o'clock. If you are letting your kids watch tv after 8 o'clock and not tucking them into bed instead, then its your fault they see anything. Now I'm not talking about teenagers. Early teenagers should be able to handle anything they see from about 8 pm to 10 pm. After that, they should be in bed as well and anything that is shown after 10 shouldn't be seen by them anyway. Why should the shows have to censor their content if parents are allowing their kids to stay up and watch tv that late? Now the gripes about ads for late-night shows are legit, because all it does is get kids curious about the shows and makes them want to stay up later to try to watch these shows. But if you don't show the ads until later at night when the shows actually air, then the kids, in theory, shouldn't see them. This is obviously not directed at anybody on this website, but just a rant that I've needed to get off my chest and the issue of censorship kind of opened the door for it. Apologies to anybody that didn't feel like reading it.