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Post by orionion »

ginger2016 wrote: post #310
sudhirj wrote: post #58

We have this kind of censorship in India as well, even the in weirdly innocous places. In James Bond movies, and I think Gone Girl as well, scenes were by zooming into character's faces or just straight cuts. This is probably the only reason I maintain a US iTunes accounts (used to have to buy gift cards from sketchy sites online to keep this going, but I recently discovered that my Indian Amex card works fine with a…

Given the racist protrayal of Indian American Raj Kuthrapalli, I am of the opinion Indians are magnanimous in allowing this show to be aired there.

Please: Rajesh Ramayan Koothrappali not "Raj Kuthrapalli" ;)

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Post by eyear »

Where is the diversity we advocate? Must the whole world accept one value? We accept homosexuality so we won't accept other people like Muslims not accepting it? So WE are definitely right and people who are different from us are absolutely wrong?

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Post by lettergram »

eyear wrote: post #592

Where is the diversity we advocate? Must the whole world accept one value? We accept homosexuality so we won't accept other people like Muslims not accepting it? So WE are definitely right and people who are different from us are absolutely wrong?

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Post by ipython »

eyear wrote: post #592

Where is the diversity we advocate? Must the whole world accept one value? We accept homosexuality so we won't accept other people like Muslims not accepting it? So WE are definitely right and people who are different from us are absolutely wrong?

So it’s ok to censor a homosexual joke? Because we need to accept Muslims? Personally I'm ok with jokes about Muslims and homosexuals and Christians and atheists and pimple faced basement dwellers and yuppies driving bmws and…

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Post by ipython »

lettergram wrote: post #593
eyear wrote: post #592

Where is the diversity we advocate? Must the whole world accept one value? We accept homosexuality so we won't accept other people like Muslims not accepting it? So WE are definitely right and people who are different from us are absolutely wrong?

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Isn’t “canceling” exactly what the ccp did here though?

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Post by kevinmchugh »

cercatrova wrote: post #453

The solution to this is, of course, piracy. I'm glad people like those on /r/DataHoarder preserve media in their complete forms so I don't have to watch them censored. A recent example is Community which has an episode of a character dressing as a dark elf, and the joke is that another character assumes it's blackface, even though it's not. Well, networks and streaming services now removed it and unless you have the…

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons is currently available on Prime Video. I don't know that they edited it there.

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Post by slater »

lettergram wrote: post #593
eyear wrote: post #592

Where is the diversity we advocate? Must the whole world accept one value? We accept homosexuality so we won't accept other people like Muslims not accepting it? So WE are definitely right and people who are different from us are absolutely wrong?

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haha, good one!

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Post by jadbox »

eyear wrote: post #592

Where is the diversity we advocate? Must the whole world accept one value? We accept homosexuality so we won't accept other people like Muslims not accepting it? So WE are definitely right and people who are different from us are absolutely wrong?

The diversity march advocates for the freedom to express oppressed minorities. I think it's philosophically a vulgar view of liberal diversity is that diversity is also defined as the ability to also tolerate groups that systematically suppresses its people of diversity (a view that Alexander Dugin espouses).

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Post by jonnybgood »

lettergram wrote: post #585
jonnybgood wrote: post #581

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re conflating business and government. Businesses have the right to do what they want with their property within the law. Otherwise, I don’t know what you’re suggesting to be done. Do you want to expand the powers of the government to moderate these companies and their property?

If government comes to you and says “this should be taken down due to X reason” then it is government censoring. China does the same thing. I linked elsewhere in this thread examples of the government asking Facebook or Twitter to censor directly. There’s an implied threat. The Supreme Court has already ruled on this previously. I expect in the next couple years as court cases about the censorship work through the co…

They were asked because the government has no legal grounds to force them. In this situation, Facebook and Twitter are not legally obligated to take action. If they took action, it is because they chose to. In China, companies are legally obligated to take action whether they want to or not. It’s not the same thing.

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Post by jjeaff »

MichaelCollins wrote: post #308
coryfklein wrote: post #277

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My Mormon neighbors tend to use VidAngel, which got in huge trouble with an absolutely hilarious payment model. 1. VidAngel purchases a bunch of Blu-ray discs and stores them in a warehouse 2. Tag all the content of a film and create filters so the user can, for example, filter out all sex and violence but leave in vulgarity 3. User "purchases" a Blu-ray for $20 (!!) and VidAngel says, "since we now know you're the o…

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…

While some Mormons may have "weird puritan" values, simply wanting censorship options for some movies is something that many families would like to have, not just Mormons. And I don't think it's necessarily puritan to want to cut out that one or two scenes of a head exploding in an otherwise family friendly flick.
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