'Seven Dirty Words' Restriction Policy Lifted from .US Domain Name Registrations (circleid.com)
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Neustar, the registry operator of the .US domain and NTIA have reversed course, allowing the inclusion of previously restricted "seven dirty words" from future .US domain name registrations. The decision came after EFF and the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School intervened in the cancelation of a domain name containing a restricted word. The domain name -- fucknazis.us -- registered by Mr. Rubin was suspended by Neustar calling it a violation of an NTIA "seven dirty words" policy -- "a phrase with particular First Amendment significance," said EFF. Further reading: EFF: Yes, You Can Name A Website "Fucknazis.us".
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November...
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(Pst, to the sensitive, that was a South Park reference.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re:So (Score:5, Informative)
The words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
This list is dated and US-centric.
"Piss" is no longer considered impolite. Even my mom says "The cat pissed on the carpet."
Australians use "cunt" as a casual gender neutral pronoun.
In Britain, tits are birds [wikipedia.org], what an American would call a chickadee.
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And tits doesn't even belong on the list. In fact, it sounds like a snack. :)
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Tots, meet Tits. Tits, Tots!
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Now I'm craving pizza tits.
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In Britain, tits are birds [wikipedia.org]
Hence:
Tits like coconuts.
Blackbirds like bread crumbs on the lawn
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The .US domain was being policed by by Neustar (a US based company) and NTIA (a US government agency). The guy who registered the domain is in the US. The EFF is based in the US. The Cyberlaw Clinic is in the US. The 7 dirty words list was based on a US court case.
Yes, the list is outdated. The wikipedia article I linked has details about and reference links to the 2010 US court case that ruled the list unconstitutional.
That said, the entire story is US-centric, so why would you think the way language
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The words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
This list is dated and US-centric.
Why would you include "fuck" twice? It seems like "motherfucker" would be blocked based on just "fuck".
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The words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
This list is dated and US-centric.
"Piss" is no longer considered impolite. Even my mom says "The cat pissed on the carpet."
Australians use "cunt" as a casual gender neutral pronoun.
In Australia you're not really mates (friends) with someone until you can call them "cunt" as a normal greeting.
In Britain, tits are birds [wikipedia.org], what an American would call a chickadee.
In the UK Tits are birds and birds are women. English is strange. Chickadee sounds like a brand of chicken nuggets. Tit is also a minor curse for someone who's a bit of an idiot or unlikable Swearing and cursing in En_UK is a very complex topic.
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It all stems from the FCC "decency" policy that roots in the 1950s
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Carlin's 7 dirty words were from a court case that actually banned those 7 words. That case is referenced in the article as the source of the list they were banning, so it's the same list.
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I enjoy that each of the seven words have their own wikipedia page. Like, I needed a wiki page for cocksucker. Also the image associated with it is hilarious.
According to the link (Score:1)
Re: According to the link (Score:3, Funny)
I can't wait to see the hot nazi action! It is a porn site, right?
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That's some weird great-grandmother fetish! (not judging...)
Any nazi alive today is in their 90s.
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For those unfamiliar... (Score:5, Funny)
or who have never seen the George Carlin routine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
As I say on all these stories ... (Score:4, Insightful)
As I say on all these stories ... all words are just arbitrary strings of characters that convey meaning.
And one of the meanings that offensive words carry is that of offense. The people using them are trying to give offense. These are units of communication, and that's literally what you are communicating with them.
The childish thing is not to recognize that, but to pretend that you don't recognize it.
Re:As I say on all these stories ... (Score:5, Funny)
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Reported. :D
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OUT!
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Well, belgium... Got hit with a reference I don't get finally. :)
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Hey, Hey, HEY!! This isn't a Serious Screenplay, you stupid turlingdrome!
The childish thing is grow people being "offended" (Score:1)
This is not a school for pubescent teenagers, nor a playschool for toddlers, nor a stereotypical chest-thumping mediterranean Mafia boys setting.
How is it, that people openly say, they are "offended", and we even take them seriously?
When somebody states something bad about you, it is either wrong, or it is right.
If it is right, you have to live with it. Nobody's perfect. You can do something wrong, even have something wrong with you, but still not be wrong. If somebody says I'm fat, which, for European stan
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That makes language very boring, and isn't true anyway.
The word shit refers to something most people want nothing to do with, a substance they find disgusting. That's what gives it its power to shock; confronting the listener with that image.
If you really do consider all words to be merely there to convey meaning then language gets very dull. That's one of the worst things about advertising - it devalues and neuters words.
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And yet nearly everyone literally contains up to a few pounds of it inside themselves, at almost all times. (Unless they're preparing for a colonoscopy.)
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The people using them are trying to give offense.
Bullshit.
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Why is a word that is used when hitting a finger with a hammer considered offensive?
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or an shirty flash game
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Your mission: Use this swastika to pleasure these four blonde ladies at the same time!
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Or do. Who am I to tell people what to do with their lives.
What I can't figure out is... (Score:2)
why people want to have sex with Nazis.
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its a real gas
Thank goodness (Score:2, Insightful)
Fuckedcompany.com (Score:2)
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I remember that site around the turn of this century. How did they get around this ban?
Apparently it was the .us registrar who had the prohibition. Not .com
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I remember that site around the turn of this century. How did they get around this ban?
BRB, going to register comcastfucked.us and thefccfucked.us real quick.
Tits.com (Score:2)
DAMN already gone!
Proud to have a .com with two of the seven (Score:2)
Years ago and with less scrutiny in the process, I registered a .com domain with two of the seven plus one that would be offensive to a fair number of religious people. Now I am a little too old to use it as an email address, but it is still fun to have.
I don't see the problem (Score:1)
Two dirty words ('fuck', and 'nazis') are 2 negatives that make a positive. Seems legit to me.
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but are you one of those people that gets triggered by porn stars wearing nazi uniforms?
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