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What sort of TV shows are censored in the West?
> What sort of TV shows are censored in the West? When was the last time you saw a pair of boobs on an US sitcom?
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noun
1. BRITISH an embarrassing mistake. "the boob was spotted by a security expert at the show"
2. NORTH AMERICAN a foolish or stupid person. "why was that boob given a key investigation?"
plenty of pairs of both on American sitcoms!
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What in particular is racist about it?
If you have watched the show and failed see why it is racist, then we need to give some anti-racist education. It is affirming the stereotype Indian males lack confidence with women. Raj can’t speak with women without the use of alcohol, the show constantly mocks his accent, worshipping of cows etc.
Weak.
> It is affirming the stereotype Indian males
Is your claim that there are no Indian males who lack confidence with women? Or that there are no nerdy, geeky men who lack confidence with women?
What's an example of the show mocking his accent? You do understand that's his normal speaking voice, I hope. Kunal Nayyar (the actor) grew up in India.
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> Numerous scenes and whole episodes of The Office were silently removed from streaming services Some private companies vs entire undemocratically elected governments conversation aside… What entire episode has been removed? I’m an office trivia buff and I’m not aware of this
"Diversity Day" has been removed in its entirety per first link. The distinction between private and government censorship is increasingly irrelevant to consumers, as in heavily consolidated markets the end effect is the same.
https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/the-office/4902514...
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Because why else would such an aversion arise? I don't think there are any sensible "defaults" for human cultures. But I wouldn't expect aversion to talking any sex to arise spontaneously among a population that hadn't had it imposed by prior generations or from outside. We're naturally curious beings and have lots of sex (compared to other species).
Is there any culture in the world without significant taboos or social rules around sex? I can totally see why that’d be the default, simply because sex is such a charged act in any culture. Purely biologically: it’s a very vulnerable act and has tons of “political/social implications” in a social species. Who you have sex with and be that vulnerable with signals your “allegiance” in a sense. Even chimps have taboos…
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Leaving aside the matter of Mormons and their weird puritan sensibilities, what this company essentially did was reinvent movie rental, but because they did it on the internet instead of a brick and mortar shop we're all expected to think it obvious and self evidence that what they did was horrible. In other contexts on sites like this, "do [common thing] but on a computer" patents get mocked and derided because "but…
Even during the video rental days you weren't allowed to just go out and purchase a bunch of videos at Walmart and start renting them out, you need to have purchased the rights to rent out the video.
You need to purchase rights to display the video in public. No one can stop you from renting out the tape. You already possess the right to rent out your own property.
[1]: The Telegraph: BBC makes 'woke cuts' to archives, including Dad's Army https://archive.is/Y5nJw
That's pretty messed up ngl.
It's worth noting that American censorship in, say, 1960, was at close to the same level. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_United_...
Oprah used to cover sex topics all the time.
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Leaving aside the matter of Mormons and their weird puritan sensibilities, what this company essentially did was reinvent movie rental, but because they did it on the internet instead of a brick and mortar shop we're all expected to think it obvious and self evidence that what they did was horrible. In other contexts on sites like this, "do [common thing] but on a computer" patents get mocked and derided because "but…
Even during the video rental days you weren't allowed to just go out and purchase a bunch of videos at Walmart and start renting them out, you need to have purchased the rights to rent out the video.
IIRC, they then hatched a scheme where the retail availability of new movies on VHS would be restricted at least for a time, forcing video rental shops to pay more for copies of popular new movies.
Youtube does not allow footage of the recent/outgoing protests against banks in China.
The author is says that chinese bots are downvoting it. It may or may not be true.