Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by rsl12
I'm guessing you're in the minority--that most of the people here would agree that it's an obscenity issue, not a political one.
Though I can't prove conclusively that it's an obscenity issue, I did some research of my own, and came across this:
http://www.editorsguild.com/newslett...ght_movies.htm
Apparently airlines go to great lengths to remove the word 'fuck' from movies on domestic flights, as well as many other words:
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having just been on several long international flights over 7 hours each... one being 17 hours I can tell you all about the media I watched and how sanitized it was. I did have an option to at least use my portable DVD player but still... it was interesting to watch for the "loops" where they removed the offending words.
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