What soft cocks... As if people aren't aware of the nature of the content of TMF/MTV. If they don't want their kids watching it, put a child lock on the channel, problem solved!

Well thats them f****d then!

hilarious, although if we have a watershed, it should be stuck to, 'fuck' & 'motherfuck' etc are a bit much before 9pm aren't they?

although why do the bbc still bleep these words out on jonathan ross at 10.30?

Not at the launguage, or the size of the fine. People actualy watch MTV these days?

... The Register used to report in IT stories....

Fuck me, what a load of fucking fuckbellied wankers, what's wrong with saying fuck all the time?

Johnny (aged 7 1/2)

The Brittish have such sensitive souls, haven't they?

Ok, i'm off... Mine's the one with the pink knickers hanging out of the inner pocket.

4 people complained?

OMG End of the world...

in one article. Keep up the good work!

mother fuckers got completly fucked over by the fucker that is ofcom.

what a bunch of spunkbelly fucks.

*Gets coat*

Just the cost of doing business in the Blighty as far as MTV is concerned. F***, Double F****, Qudruple F****, Octuple F*** as long as it brings advertising revenue and promotion of music whose only merit is the gratuitous use of F***.

So all in all, this is a pseudopenalty. It needs at least a zero at the end for the F*** at MT F***ing V to give a F***.

Fucking hell some people are a bit fucking sad. Turning the fucking telly off if you don't like the fucking swearing.

a few minor vocal indescretions by a (fairly) minority TV channel warrants immediate action.

Whereas...

allegations of mass illegal telecommunications interception by one of the worlds biggest telco's warrants immediate hand-wringing and procrastination all round.

Priorities.

All

Wrong

Here

Ofcom.

(but not surprising really)

This is f*ng ridiculous!

Why is it that when four viewers complain about something, OFCOM sits up and takes notice ... but when it comes to something IMPORTANT that the whole country objects to, like unnecessary use of 0870 and broadband suppliers misrepresenting their service as UNLIMITED when it isn't, OFCOM just sits back and does very little?

If you are offended by the F word then just don't watch shows aimed at yoof culture.

The sort of -ing idiots that MTV want to watch their -ing shows would think that any -ing sentence that doesn't contain the word - must have been said by some -ing poncey intellectual who wants his -ing head kicked in.

John, aged -ing 6 (mentally)

"...Totally Boyband. [...] featured extensive offensive language including 'fuck', 'shit', and 'bollocks'."

I would expect a show called "Totally Boyband" to be positively brimming with shit and bollocks, it's clearly labelled.

see i said it, ive gone and done it now, how mature.

I have always questioned the validity of watershed on paid for channels.

And how come it has taken over two years to complete this investigation? Probably because nobody really cares except for M.Whitehouses descendants.

Hey,

Its really tiresome watching brain dead TV zombies using F words only. Let them learn. I also remember a time when MTV was actually fun and nice to watch, but it was so long ago...

. . . people watched that and complained about the swearing? How about the fact that the show was dreadfully shite!! How many complained about that?!

Bring back Tom Green humping a dead moose.

Please can you tell us if there was a true journalistic motivation behind this article (some Ofcom link perhaps?), or was it just an opportunity to swear lots and lots?

No adult content before the watershed? Fair enough, bleep* it out or don't broadcast it. But what really annoys me is the censoring that happens AFTER the watershed! When my favourite heavy metal band release a video containing nudity, profanity and violence, I expect to be able to watch it in all its satanic glory, after 9pm.

* Is it just me or are the bleeps getting shorter? What used to be ********** is now just muthaf*cker

... to watch MTV or TMF. If the language offends you, my suggestion would be to turn it off or watch something else.

What the hell is wrong with Britain today? Bloody nanny state.

they should restrict the content of the videos they show before the watershed too - semi-naked women, simulated sexual activity, bitch-ho's and crap like "cribs".

how about some hefty fines for those 4 viewers for such a waste of ofcom time (who have better thing to do then listening to complains from peoples who have way to much time on their hands). it is like those poor (probably very religious) souls spend a lot of time watching TV just to find some stuff to complain about.

Another good thing will be the publish the name of totally clueless clowns. So MTV viewers who will be subject to lower quality MTV because of censoring, will have the name of peoples who are responcible for it. (a good deterrent for clueless complainers will be the have them deal with the MAJORITY of peoples who have they MTV ruined because 0.000000000000000000000000001% of the viewers complained,.

Democracy? Where?

...is fucking fantastic! Still, I guess they should have gone with iz-us rather than windowlicker.

Must be when they played it, the four fuckers who complained said, "OOoh, that's a nasty sound!"

Also, Bucephalus Bouncing Ball is fucking great.

Fucking thumbs up to Mr. James.

Nobody is forcing you to live in this "bloody nanny state". If the idea of protecting kids from adult content offends you, my suggestion would be to live somewhere else.

To paraphrase the Family Guy FCC:

"When 1 person complains it means a billion people were offended. So 4 Billion people were offended by this"

Although what this has to do with IT and quite why anyone is watching MTV still is beyond me...

Perhaps that OFCOM actually use the percentage of total viewers who complain to decided if they are going to act.

Therefore

4 viewers = 100% of the viewers for that show = OFCOM have to act.

"If the idea of protecting kids from adult content offends you, my suggestion would be to live somewhere else."

If you can find a place which isn't run by insane nannyists, where the powers that be understand that a kid hearing a particular four-letter, one-syllable word actually doesn't cause the slightest harm or make a blind bit of difference to anyone, then please feel free to list it.

Whatever the channel, profanity during the day is not necessary - sure, if your kids are watching MTV, don't be surprised if they grow up brain dead sex maniacs with the attention span of a gnat - but f'ing around during adverts in the middle of the day is just dumb. And the endless "you don't have to watch" brigade strike me as ex-MTV viewers who can't think beyond a knee jerk response - the whole point of any watershed is that it guarantees that you CAN watch beforehand without expecting swearing. However, you still have to listen to the crap music and simulated fucking on the videos......

The level of stupidity displayed in this thread is far beyond the average for el reg. To begin with number of complaints isn't the reason they are fined, it is used as a reason for Ofcom to investigate said complaint and see if they breached broadcasting guidelines. People complain en masse for some programs, and Ofcoms ignores them because they havn't done anything technically wrong. There is no way for Ofcom to monitor all content broadcast, so this is the best available.

Similary people tend not to complain at all, and so when even 4 do, that represents a sizable number, especially for something like mtv, and I doubt any 14 year olds will be doing the complaining. Compare to complaints for adverts, where the average number of complaints to get an advert pulled is 1.3 (I think).

For the comments saying 'if it offends you, don't watch it' well this is utter nonce, by this stance all programs should broadcast whatever they want, and if it offends you turn over, nevermind the children watching.

Ooh ooh ooh - Antartica. Although it'll be pretty frigging (replaces the "f" word with a politer version of the "f" word) cold.

Flame cos we need heat.

I presume that is a mistranslation of: immigrant motherfuckers!

AC because that sentence could get me in trouble under this regime.

It's not the numbers that matter, it is the percentage, and those numbers look pretty close to 100% to me.

"although why do the bbc still bleep these words out on jonathan ross at 10.30?"

Because you can watch it anytime on iPlayer ?

And because the Beeb holds itself to a higher standard than the junk channels?

Beavis went heh-heh-heh-heh

Butthead went huh-huh-huh-huh

Get it right, butt-mucher.