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Censorship.
Recently, I had a bit of a debate with my friends over whether censorship is necessary. Personally, I believe that violence should be censored the way they currently do it, sex should be censored to a lesser extent, and censoring swearing is just plain stupid.
What are your views on the subject?
Also, how does censorship exist in the US? Isn't it a breach of your constitution?
I think that the government should not censor anything itself. However, I believe that devices putting the power of censorship into the hands of parents is a must.
I'm just going to sit back and wait for someone to bring up child porn. That's how most of these debates on cencorship go, sadly.
Oh, and I'm 100% against it. Monitoring what your child watches isn't cencorship, it's this little activity called "parenting". Being told that I, as an adult, can't see something because somebody else doesn't like it is cencorship.
I blame my anti-censorship stance as the sole motivating factor in pirating Thrill Kill. EA censored the game into near-oblivion, so I felt obligated to give them the finger somehow. Getting and playing a CD-R of a game they owned the rights to seemed a good way to go, so I wasted time and a (very small amount of) money tracking it down. The sad thing is that even by gaming standards of a few years ago it wasn't that over the top.
Anyway, in a nutshell- you try to control what I watch, I try to control your ability to control what I watch. Preferably with a blunt instrument. Sound fair?
James
Censorship wouldn't be needed if people could just...I dunno...NOT WATCH what they find distasteful, parent their children, and basically keep that at that. Plus if there's anything you find offensive out there, that must mean there's SOMEONE with a taste for such, meaning humanity itself would need some change. Just trying to keep control over what's put on the air doesn't change the hearts of people. Sometimes it can even encourage such behavior (afterall, it's cooler to rebel, you know)
The 'C' word is Cunt, dude. Stop thread mis-advertising!
I had communism in mind myself.
You honestly don't want to know what c word I had in mind.
When I think of censorship I think about how the media does not report on facts and events that actually take place in the world, or distort them to serve their corporate employers and government. When the media is not allowed to report on events that take place in a war for example, that's real censorship.
Having a movie re-edited and things like that, I don't think it's very big deal to me and plenty of censorship exists both inside and outside of the US, in regards to entertainment. For the most part I agree that censoring entertainment should be a parent's responsibility. The only things that I think should be "censored" - which already are not - are unrealistic violence, because far too many people -not just children- think that reality is like some stupid hollywood movie. -- I would not let the (US) government do this though, they are already censoring enough things like the media and along with mass-corportations they already pretty much dictate 98% of everything most of you watch, listen to, or see anyway (and how much you pay for it).
As for sex, I don't have any problem with it being shown. I actually think that more sexuality should be shown (in a realisic way) in North America (outside of Québec, of course where you get to see plenty of boobies even on free television!!). European attitudes towards sex and sexuality are far more open and free and IMO healthy. Sex and sexuality should not be something people are ashamed of.
I don't think language is too big of a deal, and when it's used gratutously it usually just makes the speaker look stupid anyway. :p
Thats exactly what I had in mind...Quote:
Originally posted by mattvanstone
The 'C' word is Cunt, dude. Stop thread mis-advertising!
I first thought 'captialism' what with all the socialist loving people around here.Quote:
Originally posted by Yoshi
I had communism in mind myself.
every fuckin news channel is censored.
...huh?Quote:
I first thought 'captialism' what with all the socialist loving people around here.
seeing that next to your av is funny ^_^Quote:
Originally posted by Ichabod
...huh?
because you know, he looks like 'huh' and you said 'huh'
um....nevermind.
pfffffffffffffffffft.
anti-capitalism blows.
Capitalism blows, because money is the root of all evil.
That's why ethugg steals his toilet paper from public restrooms.Quote:
Originally posted by EThugg
Capitalism blows, because money is the root of all evil.
I refuse to feed the machine and help keep the cycle going. Yea, that's the ticket! Ummm...:sweat:
*runs away, free toilet paper in hand*
Everyone is so hypocritical about Captialism.
"YEAH I FUCKING HATE GLOBALISATION! DOWN WITH CAPITALISM!" Says the kid with a PS2 and Xbox under his bed