Do you prefer profanity (swearing, cursing) to be masked?

Fuck censorship.

For your question, yes they do censor it, regardless if it was a quote.

Fuck no.

And to answer the two questions:

Does your local TV and radio add beep or mask profanity?

No. Anything goes.

Does your local newspapers avoid quoting profanity if it is part of a quote that appears in an article?

No. Anything goes.

The video makes me laugh :-)

I think that if anyone sees an "F-word" or a "****" they'll probably know what it means. And let's not kid ourselves, kids these days have an even sharper vocabulary than adults.

I don't watch tv but if i overhear something from the next room when another member of the family is watching there usually are a few beeps, but sometimes i hear all out cursing. So it's in the middle.

The news papers i used to read always masked swear words.

Although it doesn't bother me personally, I think people should respect other members. Children almost certainly visit the website, I wouldn't want my kids inundated with bad language.

I dislike automated profanity filters, because quite often they block non-profane content as well - simply because some non-profane words or names may look similar to profane ones.

I rather have a report system and active moderator team over some automation system.

It's also important to me what the context of profanity is. It's two very different things to write "FUCK YOU YIRG AND YOUR FUCKING WHORE MOTHER!" and to write "FUCK THE SYSTEM!" as a witty comment to some exploit which is "fucking the system" ;p

No, No & Yes

I think if it's in the title it'd be courteous to censor it, but other than that I don't have a problem with it.

For the bonuses.
1.) Yes, America needs to be sheltered.
2.) Yep, curses are written as "[expletive]".

To answer your later question - it depends. Radio will often "silence" the lines that include profanity, but in late night auditions or in small local stations you will often hear uncensored versions of the songs. On TV there's almost none "beeping", but i's rather moderated content-wise. Aka in daytime you will not see programs with vulgarity in them, and then after 10PM you will have shows that may have profanity in them, but not-censored (because kids are already asleep). Newspapers (at least mainstream ones) tend to censor all profanity.

As long as it's kept reasonable and necessary for context, I see nothing wrong with it.
Cursing just for the sake of cursing is a bit ridiculous, though.

To answer the question - TV censors some language, newspapers don't.

Where is the 'no' option?

No.
Masking words just means people wasting time trying to get past the filter. Let people swear how they want to, if they're totally obnoxious they'll eventually leave or banned.
Also, if someone constantly swears people can tell them to tone it down because it makes them look stupid.

i don't like swearing. there's always a civil, proper and polite way to communicate.
censoring words is pointless, the meaning is the same.

I'm against censorship. If someone wants to use a certain word then they should do (and be able to do) it without masking.

For television... Hmm, I don't think they bleep or mask profanity? I haven't paid much attention, so I'm not entirely sure but I don't ever remember hearing beeps at least. I don't listen to much radio, but I've never heard a song with profanity be masked or the word cut out; they either play it as it is or don't have a song that uses profanity at all. Newspapers on the other hand I believe mask everything with asterisks.

Censorship is moronic it serves no purpose other then to make the censor feel better and give the illusion of control. People who curse more also tend to be more truthful. I prefer to attempt to present myself in a courteous manner, but I value honesty over politeness. Censorship in language is completely useless and frankly insulting to the intelligence.

Edit: I forgot about the questions :O

• Does your local TV and radio beep or mask profanity?
  I don't believe the local TV channels censor speech in my country. I don't listen to a lot of radio but I do believe they have to censor their songs (or play cleaned-up versions), they are allowed to play them uncensored after a certain hour though (in the evening)
• Does your local newspapers avoid quoting profanity if it is part of a quote that appears in an article?
  Can't say that I read a lot of newspaper but they tend to just avoid cursewords from what I remember.
• Does this make you laugh or cringe?
  I'm strongly against censorship, so laugh.

Fuck censorship, words are words. I WANT MY FREEDOM!

To answer your questions:

• Does your local TV and radio beep or mask profanity? No idea. I don't watch TV or listen to radio.
• Does your local newspapers avoid quoting profanity if it is part of a quote that appears in an article? No idea. I don't read newspapers.
• Does this make you lough or cringe? What does "lough" mean? It doesn't make me cringe.

Bleeping stuff on TV or whatever media is stupid as fuck, to be honest.

Words are just that, words, and while I don't agree with gratiuitously insulting anybody profanity causes no harm. There's a time and a place for cursing tho, but that doesn't mean it's inherently bad or stupid things such as a PG 13 movie can only have one fuck on it.

Using censors like ****, F*** has so much stupidity and hypocrisy that i cannot bear seeing them. If someone cares so much that needs to censor them, why the fuck would he/she use that particular word in the first place ?

Cunt shit fuck dick cock pussy ass bitch.

But for real, I prefer seeing profanity. At least then I know I live in a free country and a free world where everyone can say whatever they want to. There should be an option on every website to filter out profanity, but it should be an option. I mean, I hate going on Steam and being unable to cuss, especially when I'm on a forum for a game that's got a 17+ age rating.

My local radio filters profanity, but I don't listen to the radio, so I don't care q: Some TV channels censor bad words, but still show nudity (wtf?), and others censor everything. So it's hit or miss.
Some local newspapers use profanity, but most don't. We have LOL newspapers where they make funny adds and comics, sometimes they use vulgarity.
The video made my chuckle. Not sure if the subtitles are accurate, but it's funny either way :D

Milicic is garbage.

I'm not talking about what he says. I'm talking about his game. It's garbage. Not even hot garbage. Lukewarm garbage.

Oh, I didn't state my preference.

How about:

Milicic is fucking garbage.

And of course over-the-air broadcasts here (Trumpland) bleep and mask profanity. It's even become common to mosaic or mask the mouth of someone speaking profanity.

I don't read the newspaper. Who the hell reads the newspaper? Newspapers have always avoided quoting crude language if it wasn't necessary, and paraphrasing subjects if the original quote would be difficulty to understand. And yes, they rarely print profanities.

Darko's tirade doesn't make me laugh or cringe. It was childish. It was a childish outburst that was inappropriate. It wasn't inappropriate because I'm too "sensitive" and I'm "offended". It's inappropriate because Milicic is supposed to be a grown-ass man and a professional and all that nonsense about fucking mothers and daughters is empty invective, which is curious from a player that when he was in the NBA showed about as much passion as a knee-high sack of horse shit.

Darko needs to grow the fuck up.

P.S. The irony of Darko calling the refs all those names and talking all tough guy when I saw him play in the NBA and he was soft as baby shit. Darko is a fraud ass bitch clown, and I'd tell him to his face.

I don't like censorship. It's not the words that are bad, but they way you use them. I swear a lot, but mostly in a friendly way. I swear a lot with my friends and they do too, but we do it in a friendly way between us. :P
Anyway, if you have to censor it, you could write f@ck. I prefer using @.
The tv and radio in my country mask profanity, depending on the word. Not all words are censored. Well, to be honest, radio doesn't even have to mask profanity, because they're careful with the words that they use. After some hours, during the night, there's no censorship at all.
I see a lot of profanity in newspaper. They're more relaxed about these things. :P
Well, it makes me laugh a bit. :P
In general, in my country, mostly the tv masks profanity. And they do not stand at all profanity against our religion or our country.

I don't mind, and I prefer to avoid cursing, especially in English, because I'm doing it too often in Polish.

I can't say it's good neither bad. It's important to somehow mark those words as inappropriate, otherwise people might get too used to them and start tolerating some words more and more, which will eventually lead to even accepting them into "modern" dictionary, that already happened with many words in my own language, I'm pretty sure in English too.

You can't also censor everything, because it leads to some Utopia where you can't even write fuck, dick or asshole without getting annoying censorship which doesn't make sense considering everybody knows perfectly what you wanted to say.

Imho it's in balance - service doesn't enforce censorship of those words, but user shouldn't abuse it and post a message which contains curse word between every 2 other words. If you curse easily, you pretty much can't express your anger anymore, because your every post looks the same - despite of your emotions. If I call somebody asshole, or say that something is really fucked up from time to time, then it's obvious sign that I got annoyed to the point that I don't want to hold good quality conversation anymore.

I don't like neither censoring or being rude myself.
Regarding censoring in the media, if I remember correctly there's a law that prevents censoring here in Sweden. Of course some shows (for example the news) avoid swearing, but even if someone swears in those shows (for example someone being interviewed) it doesn't get censored.
And the video you linked: I have nothing against them swearing and insulting the ref if he does a bad job, but threatening him and his family is a bit too much, no matter how bad he was.

It's hard to find professional media outlets that don't censor.
I don't personally swear but I don't care if other people do. I don't like censorship. People should have the option to have it uncensored and vice versa if that's how they like it, but censorship shouldn't be forced one way or the other.
That video was hilarious btw.