World champion Max Verstappen must carry out public interest work as punishment for swearing in an official F1 press conference

  • Coelacanth
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    189 hours ago

    I completely disagree. I think we should all stop getting offended by so-called foul language and realise that we ourselves have the power of assigning value to words, and choosing as a society to continue to be offended by hearing “shit” and “fuck” is simply unnecessarily perpetuating the cycle and in essence creating opportunities to feel negative emotions for no reason for the next generation.

    There is also the fact that this language ban isn’t even motivated by some sort of morality in the first place but by sponsors who think association with such language will hurt their sales.

    • @[email protected]
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      139 hours ago

      Yep, totally agree.

      As a non native english speaker it’s always funny to me, how the commentators on Sky F1 immediately apologize for the “dirty” words the drivers use.

      Come on guys, we all know these words and everyone should be allowed to say “shit” or “fuck”, when things are exactly that: shit!

      • @[email protected]
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        141 minutes ago

        As a non native english speaker it’s always funny to me, how the commentators on Sky F1 immediately apologize for the “dirty” words the drivers use.

        This is actually required by law. It’s party of their broadcasting licence that they don’t use profanity before “the watershed” (2100 at night). If they receive a complaint that they were seen to allow the profanity they get fined. And repeat offending will lose their broadcast licence.

        It’s dumb and you may not agree with it, but that’s the rules.