Why American TV Censored the Awesome Stuff During the Oscars and Foreign TV Didn’t

The short answer is 'Justin Timberlake.' The long answer is they get offended by different things.

AdvertisementThere are lots of other swear words on my TV set, though. I can click almost any of the boxes on the flashing screen and hear someone swear!Cable and streaming TV are not subject to FCC rules, and the First Amendment generally protects the right to say F-, S-, G-, P-, C-, and MF-words.

because children are presumed not to be watching anymore, but bear in mind that 10 p.m. on the West Coast is 1 a.m. on the East Coast. Which means that basically all network programming is covered, including the 10:30 p.m. ET-ish Will Smith Incident.In Australia and Japan, though, they just don’t care? You can just say whatever to an Australian or Japanese child, via television?Not quite.

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