>>>>>It's fine that the authorities spend their time on these important matters, instead of less important matters like unemployment, the national debt and terrorism. Let's hope they hire a few million people to check the lyrics for every song ever recorded, and create a list of acceptable songs to play. They must rule out every song which include any word which may be offend someone, even if the offending word is used in another context. The list of illegal words must of course include words which for instance bullies can be heard to use, or which has an unacceptable meaning in another language, the threshold to be included should be very, very low.
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>>>>>To show my good spirit, I will help them by providing a list of words which may offend someone:
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>>>>If this virus spreads, I can then expect that the whole Serbian language will be banned, because it takes only a slight twist in the intonation to turn any sentence into an innuendo. As my old boss once said, "if they purged the dictionary of all words that could have a sexual meaning, the dictionary wouldn't even have the covers left, because 'covers' can also be taken to mean something else".
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>>>The by far most popular Frank Zappa record here in Norway, was Bobby Brown. Bobby Brown was banned in a lot of countries, but not here, although almost everyone understood the lyrics and knew what it's all about. I'm happy that I live in a country where freedom of speech is the reality, and not just another dream, like it is "over there".
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>>Over where?
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>USA and Canada in particular. The opening message of this thread, and the prohibition against certain words here, proves my point against Canada. All the buzzing in American talk shows, for instance Jerry Springer's shows, are proofs of my point against USA. In Norway we have absolutely no illegal words on the radio or TV, everything that is said or written is presented as is. Absolutely no censorship, real freedom of speech and writing.

OK, I see where you are coming from. Then I will slightly abridge my position that we have unquestioned right to free speech and agree that there is some censorship of the words that can go out over the public airwaves, i.e. television and radio. The rationale is that there may be young children watching or listening. And I am fine with that.

Political correctness, such as the so-called N-word, is a completely separate category. We are free to be as politically incorrect as we like. None of it is legally enforced. It is a social understanding that such words can be deeply offensive. But if someone wants to use them anyway, they can.