Gentlefolk,

Keep in mind now that most of these radio stations are not government funded, and so are free to edit their broadcasts as they deem appropriate. The constraints upon prior censorship here in the States apply to federal government activity not that of private sector entities.

While bleeping out portions of speeches and lyrics may be distasteful, and as has been observed, often irrational, and occasionally comical, it is not at all illegal. There is a long and dishonorable tradition being upheld here. The greatest example of them all may be that of Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an edition of Shakespeare in 1818 in which the “nasty bits” were edited out. I’m not making this up.

Whenever you read or hear about a work being “bowdlerized”, you know that the clamheads have gotten to it.

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Eudaimonia