Okay, here's where the limits to free speech kick in.
I can understand people getting into trouble for broadcasting swears. "Kids shouldn't be hearing them", even though they all know them all already and it's not really going to get worse. Still, they're designed the same way "coon" was designed; they're only there to be offensive.
In the USA, censorship is a lot worse for one big reason: You don't have a watershed.
Over here, if it's after 9pm, a lot of words are allowed through. If it's after 11, almost everything goes... although you can't call someone a c**t at any time.
We don't censor "God damn", or "ass", "shit", "Jesus!"... I think "asshole" gets beeped {at least the "hole" part}.
I can't really stand up and say "I think we shouldn't censor anything". The idea of implementing censorship against live games is just trying to have live games under the same rules as other broadcasts... although it's tricky to do. Heck, even putting in a 30 second "we can mute the sound if we need to" delay would probably be enough... although the sound-outs {alla Big Brother UK} do get annoying if everyone keeps the swears flying out.
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