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'Seven Dirty Words' Restriction Policy Lifted from .US Domain Name Registrations (circleid.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Neustar, the registry operator of the .US domain and NTIA have reversed course, allowing the inclusion of previously restricted "seven dirty words" from future .US domain name registrations. The decision came after EFF and the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School intervened in the cancelation of a domain name containing a restricted word. The domain name -- fucknazis.us -- registered by Mr. Rubin was suspended by Neustar calling it a violation of an NTIA "seven dirty words" policy -- "a phrase with particular First Amendment significance," said EFF. Further reading: EFF: Yes, You Can Name A Website "Fucknazis.us".
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or who have never seen the George Carlin routine:
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As I say on all these stories ... all words are just arbitrary strings of characters that convey meaning.
And one of the meanings that offensive words carry is that of offense. The people using them are trying to give offense. These are units of communication, and that's literally what you are communicating with them.
The childish thing is not to recognize that, but to pretend that you don't recognize it.
November...
The words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
This list is dated and US-centric.
"Piss" is no longer considered impolite. Even my mom says "The cat pissed on the carpet."
Australians use "cunt" as a casual gender neutral pronoun.
In Britain, tits are birds, what an American would call a chickadee.
And tits doesn't even belong on the list. In fact, it sounds like a snack. :)
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Is it nagger? Naggers really annoy me.
(Pst, to the sensitive, that was a South Park reference.)
or an shirty flash game
Tots, meet Tits. Tits, Tots!
why people want to have sex with Nazis.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Wouldn't want to hinder someone taking a brave stand against Nazis, some 73 years too late ...
I remember that site around the turn of this century. How did they get around this ban?
Your mission: Use this swastika to pleasure these four blonde ladies at the same time!
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This is not a school for pubescent teenagers, nor a playschool for toddlers, nor a stereotypical chest-thumping mediterranean Mafia boys setting.
How is it, that people openly say, they are "offended", and we even take them seriously?
When somebody states something bad about you, it is either wrong, or it is right.
If it is right, you have to live with it. Nobody's perfect. You can do something wrong, even have something wrong with you, but still not be wrong. If somebody says I'm fat, which, for European standards, I am, that's both true, and not a good thing. But why would I think that makes me a bad person? Yeah, I'm addicted. I might even be a junkie. I still haven't processed some major shit from my life. But I'm on it, fighting every day. I'm not bad because some fuckers did something to me, now am I? (Disclaimer: When I say major, I don't mean "somebody was mean to me"-level, like you probably assume. I mean "brainwashing Saw rape dungeon and war horrors"-level.)
And if it is wrong, I also have two choices: I can confidently treat it like the nonsense that it is, and e.g. ridicule the moron or point out how pathetic he is, if that is even necessary. Or I can react by getting all defensive, arguing to refute his arguments, and thereby award them weight in the first place, making everyone else around us think "Hmm, looks like he thinks these criticisms are so valid, that he needs to defend against them. Either they are true, or he is one insecure fuck of a loser.". And as soon as I break out the "offensive" card, they will definitely think the latter.
In any case though, words themselves cannot be "offensive". It requires it to be meant in a bad way too! ... They need it to be meant in a bad way, because that is the prejudice they have towards the world. And it conveniently gives them the upper hand, and allows them to bully other people, without being seen as the bully. Something that people who believe they are "born losers" of course eat up like flies eat shit.
And there lies the problem: When people are such insecure losers, that they actively LOOK for anything that they can "interpret" as having meant badly. It's the foundation of all of political correctness and SJW bullying.
That is what we need to cure: The general epidemic of insecure "house of cards" personalities.
And you wouldn't believe if I told you, how many cultural things solely exist because of that.
DO NOT gis "swasticock".
Or do. Who am I to tell people what to do with their lives.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I enjoy that each of the seven words have their own wikipedia page. Like, I needed a wiki page for cocksucker. Also the image associated with it is hilarious.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
DAMN already gone!
Now I'm craving pizza tits.
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Years ago and with less scrutiny in the process, I registered a .com domain with two of the seven plus one that would be offensive to a fair number of religious people. Now I am a little too old to use it as an email address, but it is still fun to have.
Two dirty words ('fuck', and 'nazis') are 2 negatives that make a positive. Seems legit to me.
sigo ergo sum
In Britain, tits are birds
Hence:
Tits like coconuts.
Blackbirds like bread crumbs on the lawn
The .US domain was being policed by by Neustar (a US based company) and NTIA (a US government agency). The guy who registered the domain is in the US. The EFF is based in the US. The Cyberlaw Clinic is in the US. The 7 dirty words list was based on a US court case.
Yes, the list is outdated. The wikipedia article I linked has details about and reference links to the 2010 US court case that ruled the list unconstitutional.
That said, the entire story is US-centric, so why would you think the way language is used in other countries would have any bearing?
It all stems from the FCC "decency" policy that roots in the 1950s
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
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Carlin's 7 dirty words were from a court case that actually banned those 7 words. That case is referenced in the article as the source of the list they were banning, so it's the same list.
The words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
This list is dated and US-centric.
Why would you include "fuck" twice? It seems like "motherfucker" would be blocked based on just "fuck".
If you have more imagination, you would register "fucked.us" and sell sub-domains.
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The words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
This list is dated and US-centric.
"Piss" is no longer considered impolite. Even my mom says "The cat pissed on the carpet."
Australians use "cunt" as a casual gender neutral pronoun.
In Australia you're not really mates (friends) with someone until you can call them "cunt" as a normal greeting.
In Britain, tits are birds, what an American would call a chickadee.
In the UK Tits are birds and birds are women. English is strange. Chickadee sounds like a brand of chicken nuggets. Tit is also a minor curse for someone who's a bit of an idiot or unlikable Swearing and cursing in En_UK is a very complex topic.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.