>>44591356This.
I mean, when I grew up we had one TV and the internet didn't exist, but I still wouldn't expect my parents to be able to keep up with all the shit I was watching (well, once we got cable anyway, and kids TV wasn't restricted to a couple of hours on Saturday morning and weekday afternoons).
It's just not feasible to expect a parent to sit down and watch every show their kid is watching, and even if they do there'd still be no telling if EVERY episode would be appropriate in a world without censors.
Granted, the parent could simply not let their kid watch so much TV, but that notion is pretty unrealistic in this day and age, not to mention potentially stifling of the child's creative development and independence. All you're really saying is that parents should be censoring their children for themselves, not that censorship shouldn't exist. And having something personally censored for you by a parent is a fuckload more stifling for a kid than being oblivious to a silly joke being cut out in the development stage. Have you ever talked to one of those kids who's parents never let them watch The Simpsons? It's fucking depressing.
There's nothing wrong with how things are currently censored on TV. There are shows that are designed as child-appropriate, and shows that aren't. No one's taking away your options, they're just making your options clear. And the constraints are getting more and more lax as time goes on.
