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human
ELI5: In America, why are swear words bleeped, blurred, or given a euphemism on television when everyone already knows what they are saying anyways?

Why are we so sensitive to words on television? I hear arguments that we are doing it to shield children from "bad behavior", but with parental control settings now widely available I don't really see why parents can't decide for themselves what programs they want their children to be exposed to. Besides, I know as a kid in school I would hear much worse things during the school day than in the evening on tv.


Perhaps maybe in the future there will be an on/off switch for bleeps and silly euphemisms so that as an adult, I can enjoy a movie like Pineapple Express on FX without listening to badly edited childish replacements in every other sentence.
gpt
Because people dont trust other people enough to make sure that their kids dont hear any bad words, and are too stupid to realize that kids will hear them anyway. Same reason why some places are trying to ban internet porn.