PYF Censorship and Ratings: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

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Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

I'm not really sure why Hillary gets so worked up about children and video games. It just seems like a relic of the moral panic about video games in the 90s with things like DOOM and Mortal Kombat.

Censorship means you have control over people and content. What Socialist turns down controlling how people are supposed to think and act when votes are on the line?

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Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

One of the Gundam shows had one of the mobile suits get shot to hell in the background (we can't have war in a war program) and the obvious censor was a patch of trees taking its place and getting shot up instead. It was the same one that had the disco ball gun.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2016 01:04

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

Who doesn't laugh at the thought of having to whitewash black characters in games? Dancing or stealing, suddenly, the cast has no minorities.

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

This is the logic that the MPAA uses to justify its existence (ie "It's better that we do it so the government doesn't have to"). It's got a pretty libertarian streak in that sense.

It is older than that. Businesses centuries ago in the US, did not want the government meddling with their success. There is money and responsibility at stake and leaving it out of their hands can have a negative effect on consumers. Hollywood has a weird and interesting history with how it edited its movies.

Scalding Coffee has a new favorite as of 17:07 on Feb 24, 2016

# ¿ Feb 24, 2016 17:05

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I don't ever expect to see stuff like Fracknation on a Hollywood film.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2016 18:01

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

LORD OF BUTT posted:

But you totally have the ability to say "gently caress that" and just work with a lower budget. The movies I mentioned straight up wouldn't exist with government censorship, because Elyisum and the Purge movies are basically screaming "gently caress RICH PEOPLE, FULL COMMUNISM NOW" from the hilltops and Sicario is all about how badly we hosed up Mexico with the War on Drugs.

Elysium was really about how one kind of people were trying to cross the border of a richer country with no janitors. :cheeky:

# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 01:56

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