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Acting like your better than everyone else is definitely a bad image to show a son.
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YouTube censorship
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I'd say censorship is usually the wrong way to go. I believe that better ideas will always trump their competition. Absent profanity or pornography, the public square is lessened by actions that diminish the public's access to competing ideas.
Which is why the left censors information.
ok doser
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maybe the solution is to realize that a lot of what goes on here at TOL isn't appropriate for a five year old, like jeff's avatar and most of the images in acw's thread
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i'll never be able to listen to this again without thinking of that :chuckle:
i'll be darned - i dint know they wuz black
ok doser
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glorydaz said:
ok, to refresh - your son looked over your shoulder and saw a youtube video in which the fellow used the F-word
what impact do you think this will have on a five year old boy?
ok doser
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everybody should watch this :thumb:
nobody will
btw - "the young turks" is a bunch of retards
:rotfl:
That one never gets old.
Also, it's a great tool to teach five-year-olds not to do exceedingly dangerous things like pretend to be a girl.
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It's not the public square. YouTube is a private company that has the right to deny a platform as it sees fit.
The problem is the alleged fraud.
Did you miss the legal aspect of the video? It was the main point.
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ok doser
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I think your net is half full. The extremes tend to censor, left or right, from language to conduct and along the lines of what they believe should compel us.
Sure. And I can see that coming and make sure he isn't exposed to it.
What I didn't foresee was a Christian linking me to a video where that language was being used. Why? For one reason it's against the rules we agree to when we sign on here. For another, I thought Tam would be the sort to abide by them, would never have thought what she did was possible for her. See, I can think someone has flaws in their thinking without that necessarily being a judgement of their character. I was almost as shocked by the realization she'd done it as by the word itself. I was doubly shocked with her response to the criticism. Not the personal part, but the lack of responsibility or addressing it.
In her shoes I'd have been embarrassed, apologized, and removed the link.
No. He was playing in another part of the room and heard the word.
It underscores something I've taught him, that some people make poor choices about the words they use and that this fellow made an evil one. We had a conversation about it. And I know that in the course of his life he'll hear worse. But I hope not at five and it wasn't something he should have been exposed to via this site.
poop sticks
I know. I was making a broader comment. They make their money trading on the impression that they're a fairly open public forum.
I stopped watching videos put up around here a day ago when an F bomb was in a link made by a site member and Christian, if you can believe it. If you'll vouch I won't run into anything unfit for the site in terms of language I'll be happy to give it a look. Our differences aside, I'd take your word for it.
Otherwise, if it comes up on my legal radar I'll probably address it in my thread on the subject. I was noting the comments about censorship and limited my contribution to that point at present.
But who really brings their family to TOL?
I watched it.everybody should watch this :thumb:
nobody will
btw - "the young turks" is a bunch of retards
A Christian website shouldn't come in a brown rapper, shouldn't be a place where you have to cut the sound if you have children.
If you don't get that I can't help you, patrick.
hehe!
That's one of them situations where you laugh because it's funny even with someone getting hurt.
Like this one.
Me.
Or tried to anyway.
I like the word when used in humor or at least for a chuckle or at any rate when uttered/written while in a good mood, or to lighten the mood.
When it's used angry it's an attempt to offend at worst, and to perhaps brazenly elicit compassion to the user's plight at best.
I don't think the word's evil in and of itself, but that's just like all other opinions.
P.S. I don't use it around my or anyone else's kids, and I keep kids from hearing it also, just for the (more complete) record.
When it's used angry it's an attempt to offend at worst, and to perhaps brazenly elicit compassion to the user's plight at best.
I don't think the word's evil in and of itself, but that's just like all other opinions.
P.S. I don't use it around my or anyone else's kids, and I keep kids from hearing it also, just for the (more complete) record.
I think that's the way most folks view it.
It can be used in an aggressive and insulting or non-aggressive non-insulting way.
You can do the same with the word "dog".