Last year I received 3 separate emails from my ISP claiming copyright violations. Two were for downloading movies and one for a game title. My household consists of my husband and I - we have no children or room-mates to be messing around with our computers. After each email I called the ISP to tell them that we hadn't downloaded the content and were basically told that their software said we did and they didn't believe us. After much yelling and 2 more emails, we finally figured out that the problem was a cable modem that we had used briefly before switching back to an older model. The new one had gone back to the store where we bought it and evidently was purchased by someone else for use at the same ISP. Given cable company monopolies, this shouldn't be too surprising. Long story short, they still had the MAC address of that returned modem linked to my account. It was only after they blocked access for that MAC address and got a phone call from the other subscriber that they truly believed us.
If anyone had gotten sued over this mess, it would have been my husband and I, despite our complete innocence. We would have been essentially blackmailed into settling rather than risk a court believing us as much as the techs at the ISP did.
First, I agree with the other replies that you are poisoning young girls minds. By setting those expectations, you are almost giving boys a free pass to act that way as well. Did you consider that?
Second, CBS isn't trying to do anything. It's the title of a book/twitter account. CBS is merely repeating it, and they shouldn't have to censor it at all.
Words have only the power you give them, and profanity simply should not be given this much power. Saying "shit" only has shock value if you allow yourself to be shocked.
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Last year I received 3 separate emails from my ISP claiming copyright violations. Two were for downloading movies and one for a game title. My household consists of my husband and I - we have no children or room-mates to be messing around with our computers. After each email I called the ISP to tell them that we hadn't downloaded the content and were basically told that their software said we did and they didn't believe us. After much yelling and 2 more emails, we finally figured out that the problem was a cable modem that we had used briefly before switching back to an older model. The new one had gone back to the store where we bought it and evidently was purchased by someone else for use at the same ISP. Given cable company monopolies, this shouldn't be too surprising. Long story short, they still had the MAC address of that returned modem linked to my account. It was only after they blocked access for that MAC address and got a phone call from the other subscriber that they truly believed us. If anyone had gotten sued over this mess, it would have been my husband and I, despite our complete innocence. We would have been essentially blackmailed into settling rather than risk a court believing us as much as the techs at the ISP did.
First, I agree with the other replies that you are poisoning young girls minds. By setting those expectations, you are almost giving boys a free pass to act that way as well. Did you consider that? Second, CBS isn't trying to do anything. It's the title of a book/twitter account. CBS is merely repeating it, and they shouldn't have to censor it at all. Words have only the power you give them, and profanity simply should not be given this much power. Saying "shit" only has shock value if you allow yourself to be shocked.