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Why Profanity in a Headline Demonstrates Immaturity and Lack of Substantive Content


"Fucking" is a vulgarity, not a profanity.


Not to mention it adds nothing descriptive to the link, and serves no purpose whatsoever.

Can we get an editor to change it to: "Why DRM is such a stupid idea"?




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