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

  • GreatRam@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The British are way more afraid of swearing on national TV than the Americans are

    • Ross_audio@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Nope, the broadcaster just issues a (sometimes tongue in cheek) apology and everything carries on.

      The US broadcasters risk breach of advertising contracts and losing money over it.

      The UK broadcasters will get a small fine if they don’t apologise and do it regularly.

      And the public in the UK generally don’t care.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Eh. US networks don’t allow it, just the same as UK ones before 21:00.

      Real people don’t actually care.