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I am not a fan of censorship.

Not just because I am opinionated, but because I feel that it tramples on our rights and freedoms, which of course, generations before us fought so valiantly for.

I am also a fan of facebook.

I’ve been on facebook for over 3 years now.

I spend a reasonably large amount of time on facebook, spreading my greatness to the masses, as well as playing games such as Mafia Wars and Farmville. I have spent an inordinate amount of time on there.

But something about facebook has upset me greatly.

As a social networking site, Facebook has made a number of changes to it that have been met with a lot of tension by its users. How many times have you seen people update their facebook statuses or create groups dedicated to how much they hate the new facebook.

Well Facebook is doing something that is far worse than updating its new look. Facebook is starting to censor its users.

At the urging of one of you, The Forch Foreign Legion. I have been asked to speak on this.

Jennifer Hay, one of my facebook friends, and a supporter of this website brought the censorship of a Comedian by the name of Beau Brooks. From what I have been advised of, is that he, like myself love to leave comments on people’s statuses. photos, whatever, and now for him that has been removed.

In effect, Beau is being censored.

Now this edition is not direct to Beau’s situation, but it was enough to raise my ire.

To me, someone who works in the media, Censorship is something that I completely disagree with.

I understand that people get offended at things people say. I get offended all of the time. But you know what? Does that mean that I am going to try to change the world so that people’s feelings never get hurt? Forget it.

If I worried about offending someone every time I opened my mouth, I’d have to take a vow of silence.

And now facebook, a social networking site, has joined the right to censor, by making sure that those who might make comments that may be somewhat “Saucy” have a cap placed upon them. That’s not right.

I think that the idea that you can pick and choose who can and can not leave comments on their site is appalling. If you’re going to remove one person’s ability to comment, you should be removing them for EVERYONE!

That is why I love this station. And our slogan.

Radio without rules.

I love the idea that I have carte blanche on this show, as well as on the Oh Team, and I don’t have to answer for what I say. I am not the most controversial person out there, but I like the idea, that I can tell the country of Australia to go Fuck a Kangaroo, and not have to get a “Booting” by the Prime minister of the country as an apology.

Now of course, those of you who listened to “The Oh Team” on last Monday night, heard me say that, but please understand that was meant as a joke. Even though, Australia was created originally as a penal colony, I would love to visit that country, and relish the opportunity to watch a toilet flush and go in the opposite direction.

But I digress.

Anyone who wants to censor someone else is wrong. I may not agree with what Howard Stern has to say on what he calls a radio show now, but I will defend his right to say it.

If you’re offended by the things that you hear, you do reserve the right to ignore them. Or better yet, if this is something you see on TV, or on the Radio, you do have a multitude of Stations to watch or listen to.

This is not 1956, where there are only 2-3 stations available. it’s 2009. And last time I checked, we live in a world of 200+ channels on the television. So there’s choice there. If you want to keep things all sterile and bland, Tune into the All Potato network. I’m sure you’ll love their in-depth expose on Russet Potatoes, or even their Cable-access award winning show: Spud Speak., but don’t tune in after 10pm, because their programming “after dark” gets a little racy.

I’m not stupid.

I know that one day, I am going to have to face the consequences of what I say one of these days.

But I strongly believe that we should live in a world where we’re allowed to say what’s on our minds, and not have to worry about some God-damned hippees get offended at comments that have nothing whatsoever to do with them, but because they heard it, they feel the need to make sure that they get their faces on the TV.

Nothing pisses me off more than some overly-concerned parent who gets upset because of something that was said on TV, because she is worried that her impressionable child will hear it. The damned kid 9 times out of 10 hasn’t heard it, but the fact that it could happen is there, so we need to gripe over a possibility.

The truth is, is that you were half the parent that you are supposed to be, you could teach your child right from wrong, and perhaps be there with them doing something constructive, then maybe your kid won’t grow up to be that axe-wielding sociopath.

My parents are both a pain in the ass, but they did a great job of putting not only the fear of God into me, but as well they instilled a sense of right and wrong in me. I may be a little on the arrogant side at times, and may be very eccentric, but the fact remains that I am a good person. I don’t drink. I don’t do drugs, I open doors for people, and I am polite to people who deserve it.

I think that if people were less worried about what they see on TV and more concerned with making our world a place where we can actually find real jobs, and support our families, maybe the world will be a much better place than the one we live in now.

So to all of you who are pro-censorship, heed the following….

Go Fuck Yourselves, you self-righteous fucksticks, before I really get pissed off and rip your throat out of your spines and beat you to death with them! I don’t need your tree-hugging hippee crap anymore!

In fact, I think that it is you who should be censored….

But that’s just my opinion…. What do I know????

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