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[theweaselking]

US Armed forces TV plays "Swordfish" with Halle Berry's nude scene altered to remove nudity, claims that this isn't censorship.
Because, of course, you're in the army. You're old enough to vote and obviously old enough to fight and die, but you can't POSSIBLY be trusted with nudity or bad words!

Also,
NASA describes an experiment to test one of the predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity - that space-time should twist as well as curve.
This, for those of you playing at home, is what REAL science does: Makes predictions that can be tested, and revises the theory on the grounds of the results of the test.

Also,
Burglar breaks into the Lubyanka in Moscow, steals item from their museum: A German nazi party badge, ID#1. Hitler's.

Comments

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Being an AFN viewer for 2 years, I hate the programming. However, the programming is editted before its given to the AFN stations.

Also, AFN is usually the only non-satellite, English speaking, television programming available to personnel overseas. This includes children. I can understand the programming being editted since movies like Gladiator or Braveheart will air in the middle of the day.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

Further, they don't claim it's not censorship - just that they aren't the ones who censored it. The version played was a version filmed by the studio at the same time as the theatrical, for use on television. Happens all the time, is annoying, but is not a big deal.

-K

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No, they said it's not censorship at all, AND they weren't doing it - although they *would* do it if they had to, which they do when something arrives to them without being pre-cleaned.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I didn't catch that this was for more than just the troops, although I should have.

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, my dad was in the army and we lived overseas; the only English-language TV we had to watch was AFN. These days I guess there is satellite TV and DVDs and so forth, so it's not quite the same, but from the article it appears that AFN is still provided as a service to military families, which include small children. so, I can't really take issue with them adhering to broadcast standards.