I think the UK television gameshow Countdown just beep-edited out the word 'breasts' from their broadcast. Is this mandated by law or some broadcasting code? [more inside]
posted by knapah on Aug 25, 2009 - 9 answers

I'm reading "For Whom the Bell Tolls", for the first time, that I got from the library. Every obscenity is printed as "unprintable", "un-nameable", or "obscenity". Obviously Hemingway didn't write that, and it's annoying. Would a modern printing still have these edits? [more inside]
posted by hwyengr on Nov 12, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm looking for pointers on whether TV programs which are subject to censoring of obscene language have to also look out for obscenity in foreign languages. [more inside]
posted by ubernostrum on Jul 7, 2008 - 8 answers

Trying to find a bizarre and disturbing short manga, featured on Reddit a month or two ago. The manga in question played with the idea of panel art by depicting the inhabitants of each panel from different angles, or slightly ahead in time - a perspective from which they could be seen to be only partial bodies, or horribly mutilated, etc. [more inside]
posted by topynate on Feb 10, 2008 - 3 answers

new employee has some potentially compromising sites associated with her... [more inside]
posted by frosty_hut on Jul 24, 2007 - 34 answers