it seems that US censorship seems to be apparent to all except some people in US.
This bizzare notion that private companies somehow can't be doing censorship is terrible for free societies.
The Big [Censored] Theory
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#702Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Communist Party is the reason China is in this mess in the first place, and further control and oppression by them isn't going to magically fix it.
That's a fair observation. I'm curious though, do you have any ideas to improve the situation? What would you do if you were responsible for 1.5B people and were facing a situation where the labor force participation drops by half over the next ten years and continues to drop every year since? Will you be able to arrange for the population to be able to be fed, clothed, housed, and given medical care? It's not possib…
Do you have a source for the 50% drop? It seems excessive.
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#703Earlier quoted context omitted.
It absolutely backfires. No one is as successful at selling US culture as the US, except all those countries that censor exported/imported US culture.
This seems untrue. Do more than a fraction of a percent of Chinese people watch the uncensored versions of things?
I'm Chinese, I want to say that the uncensored version is still circulating in Baidu's network disk.
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#704Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm still astounded that Enchanted (the 2007 film) prominently features a scene of the chipmunk sidekick pooping on screen.
Isn't pooping something we all do from birth? Hard to put it in the same category as fornication.
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#705Is aversion to discussion of sex a part of traditional Chinese culture? Seems odd given I'm not aware of any puritanical religions taking hold there.
It's likely that religions adopted sex aversion from common culture rather than the other way around. The Bible for example is much less puritan than what we associate with Christian culture (see song of songs). In contrast, things the Bible condemns that aren't so culturally logical have barely entered the cultural consciousness. For example its frequent condemnation of consumption of blood
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#706At the end the article claimed that censorship prevented creation of good movies. In Soviet Union a few good movies were made despite draconian censorship. Then after abolishment of all censorship there were less good films from former USSR. It almost looked like directors tried to put all previously banned sex, violence and cursing on screen but in the process forgot how to film good stories.
when censorship was removed so were the barriers to leave … thus the good people fled
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#707Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the US, you can get in a lot of trouble for publishing military secrets. (IE, you bet a movie that casually mentions a military secret would get into a lot of hot water right away.) Otherwise, the rest of censorship comes from social pressure; or someone with hurt feelings trying to twist the courts to enforce their will.
Publishing military secrets is legal (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive,_... .). Journalists don't have a duty to keep classified information secret, only the people who've agreed to keep it secret do.
Obviously false, see Assange.
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#708Earlier quoted context omitted.
I completely disagree. An individual's rights should have nothing to do with the people who happen to surround them and what they happen to think. If different countries allow different things, that would mean that what a person is allowed to do would depend on where they happen to live, which is usually close to where they happened to be born. That doesn't make any sense to me- the lottery of birth should have no im…
Possibly true, but can we at least agree that a democratic majority deciding to censor something is significantly better than a dictatorship deciding to censor something?
well, depends with whom your views align with more
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#709Kinda weird that author categorized the incest joke "Howard: I lost my virginity to my cousin Jeanie" under LGBTQ censorship. When she mentioned the justification: "China has encouraged straight couples to marry and raise two to three children." it makes some sense, but incestuous relationships are not considered by themselves "LGBTQIA2S+"
What does the "I" stand for then?