Are We Supposed To See That?

Censorship is probably one of the biggest things that I have a problem with when watching movies on television since censorship in movie theaters doesn't really happen unless it is part of a joke in a movie.  Wikipedia defines censorship as the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.



 The reason why I think a controlling body would suppress or edit something from the public is because they do not feel that people can handle that certain type of material.  One of the late George Carlin's -- a very fun and one of the most controversial comedians -- most famous jokes was the 7 Words You Cannot Say On Television which he tells the words that are too bad to be said on television and his opinions on words in general:

Warning: the following contains very foul language. Viewer discretion is advised

While I agree that some of those words should not be said on television, the people who do the censoring of material on television get too carried away with bleeping -- the sound that is made when censoring "bad" language-- some of the things that are being said, like when I was watching a comedy special on Comedy Central the bleeped out the word tongue by mistake after the comedian had some a couple of other bad words earlier in the joke.  Now I personally feel that censorship should not be so strict with editing material that is on television.