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"Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-a-nice-day-for-a-red-wedding dept.

v3rgEz writes: As a cable channel, the FCC has little to no jurisdiction over HBO's content. That doesn't stop people from complaining to them about them, however, and after a FOIA request, the FCC released numerous complaints regarding the network's Game of Thrones. While there were the usual and expected lamentations about 'open homosexual sex acts,' other users saw Game of Thrones as a flashpoint in the war of Net Neutrality.

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  1. Glad they didn't read the books by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship, paganism... I mean really I think GRRM went through the list of things that might get a nuns panties in a bunch, and found a way to write them down.

    The TV show might in some ways be considered censored for good taste!

    1. Re:Glad they didn't read the books by sehlat · · Score: 3, Informative

      http://www.christianpost.com/n...

    2. Re:Glad they didn't read the books by vux984 · · Score: 5, Informative

      If you're dead for 3 days and then come back to life, you're a zombie.

      No. If you come back as a zombie you are a zombie.

      For example, the turning of Vampires is usually accomplished by death, being dead, and then a return to undead. Vampires are not Zombies.

      At least, nobody but a pedant brandishing a dictionary definition would try to call them zombies.

      Similarly, in the Jesus resurrection story he is not a zombie. He was simply returned to life, as in properly restored to being "alive" as he was before death, not as in "undead", or transformed by his death into a new being.

  2. Dangling participle error in title by steveha · · Score: 4, Informative

    Today's grammar lesson: dangling participle

    As a cable channel, the FCC has little to no jurisdiction...

    Oops... the FCC is not a cable channel. Suggested rewrites:

    As a cable channel, HBO is pretty much not under the jurisdiction of the FCC.

    As HBO is a cable channel, the FCC has little to no jurisdiction over it.

    P.S. I really enjoy a good dangling participle. "Landing at the airport, our car was visible in the parking lot."

    --
    lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
  3. Re:I just got bored of the bloody thing by rahvin112 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe I'm just silly but it's probably because it's in the fucking book. If you want to watch a soap opera that "focuses on character development and plot" they are on in the afternoon.