Posted on 12/03/2014 6:19:54 AM PST by bestintxas
Update: After the following column appeared on FoxNews.com, Disney issued the following statement on Tuesday, December 2: “Disney employs word filtering technology to prevent profanity from appearing on our websites. Unfortunately, because so many people attempt to abuse the system and use the word “God” in conjunction with profanity, in an abundance of caution our system is forced to catch and prevent any use of the word on our websites. The company would have been happy to explain our filtering technology to the inquiring family had they contacted us.”
It turns out you can give thanks for a lot of different folks on the Disney Channel website – but you can’t thank God.
I received a Facebook message on Sunday from Julie Anderson, of Angier, North Carolina, a town located about 30 miles from Raleigh. Julie was writing to tell me about her daughter, Lilly.
Lilly celebrated her 10th birthday on Sunday. After church and a delicious lunch at the Golden Corral, the Andersons headed home – and Lilly made a beeline for the computer.
I do wonder what sort of message the Disney Channel is sending when they tell children that mentioning God in public is bad manners.
Now, Lilly loves the Disney Channel – and as she was browsing the channel’s website she noticed a question. The Disney Channel wanted to know what she was thankful for. So Lilly typed in her answer.
“God, my family, my church and my friends,” the 10-year-old wrote.
Lilly pressed the return key and waited for her answer to appear on the website.
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I would suspect that the code to check the context of any text “containing” the word God could ascertain whether his Name was being used in an inappropriate manner or not......
apparently they did want to simply “eliminate” ALL references to God.
They just wanted to save me money. No more tickets to D-land.
"Not God bless America but God damn America"! That would pass muster?
Not sure about that. Company was founded by a guy who had his head frozen after he died so he could come back later. I’m thinking if he came back now, Walt would be well pleased.
Amazing, isn’t it -
You can use The Lord’s name as a cussword and it’s not offensive,
but if you speak it reverently, they get in a twist.
Every heard anyone hit their finger with a hammer and exclaim “oh, Buddha!”?
How about “saltwater”?
When I was young, Disney was almost God to me, and his company could do no wrong.
As for now, I’d just as soon use Disney properties as a target for F-15 practice.
Duh! 10 seconds.
I live 2 hours north of Orlando, haven’t gone to DW since I was a kid in the 70s and don’t plan to for many reasons. This is just another on the list of why not to. I’d just as soon sit on the beach and read a good book. You know how much beer you can buy with the $$ you save NOT going to one of those overpriced theme parks?
Because disney is part of the media/entertainment complex which is participating in the de-Christianization of this country.
THIS is why I rarely watch Fox News anymore. Sheppard Smith and Geraldo Rivera are just fine, but Disney using a filter to prevent taking the Lord’s name in vain isn’t?
This non-story is a sorry excuse for journalism.
I’ll give you five Christian related activities Disney does every year.
1. They have a Christian concert series every Fall
2. Candlelight Processional.
3. Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party
4. Osborne Family Festival of Light.
5. Every resort is decorated for Christmas from Thanksgiving to New year’s.
I'm sure a lot of FReepers spend their hard-earned money on vacations in DL and DW. So if this post offends you. So be it.
Flame away.
So - I was trolling the cable channels the other night...came across Kevin Hart in Comedy Channel - and realized that when he said f**k - they bleeped it out - but when he said God D*amn he said it openly and without any bleeps...
...uhm...CC thinks that G/D is just okay to say because it demeans God and is not offensive, but f**k can be offensive.
Seems like a concentrated effort by the FCC to seal the coffin with another nail to wipe out Christian values on TV...
I’m no fan of the Disney Corporation, and I avoid spending any money on their products, but Walt Disney did not have his head or any other part of himself frozen. He was cremated and the ashes buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
His daughter has maintained that she does not believe her father had ever even heard of cryonics.
Regards,
not if I had anything to do with it. no
Disney may not “feel” that way...
Just better not say anything against Annette Funicello.
Hasn’t Disney gone completely homosexual yet?
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