World champion Max Verstappen must carry out public interest work as punishment for swearing in an official F1 press conference
World champion Max Verstappen must carry out public interest work as punishment for swearing in an official F1 press conference
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.
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!
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.
Then they should stop using communications that contain profanity in their broadcasts. Drivers should dump the blame on the production teams.
They do that when they have enough time to redact the profanity. It’s always bleeped out. But in a live situation when you don’t have time to edit a beep in you’re going to have some fall through the cracks.
I don’t know if you watch any other sport on British TV but it’s the same there. For example in Rugby the referee is actually mic’d up and you always hear some fruity language from the players. And when that leaks into the ref’s mic and gets accidentally broadcast the commentators apologise because they don’t want to be seen as breaching the rules.
In general you probably don’t want to broadcast foul language when children might be watching. But you also can’t avoid foul language at sporting events that happen to be broadcast at the hours children might be watching. So you have to do something to tread that line.
And, look, if you still disagree then maybe switch to a Dutch stream of the coverage where apparently it’s totally normal to swear like a pirate at any time of day 🤷.