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> This added up to over one hour of deleted scenes, or nearly three full episodes of purely censored content I would like to watch the edit of only deleted scenes strung together.
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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 actually agree, but I got the sense that the company being mormon was meant to bias the reader of that comment towards thinking that the company was in the wrong. I hoped to drive the conversation past that prejudice by conceding and dismissing it rather than pushing back against it, because I felt that on this forum pushback would likely prompt a religious flamewar rather than a discussion about digital rental. Us…
Diversity in the global sense is cultural diversity, a step up from what is usually assumed to be diversity in American discource.
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The current discussion around 'harm' from AI generated images is the most hilarious example of a cultural more trying to find a justification for its existence after it is no longer applicable. Will no one think of the pixels being exploited? The older I get the more I realize that culture is what keeps us back. The Romans didn't invent steam engines not because they didn't want them but because they couldn't imagine…
> The Catholic Church didn't survive the printing press. It's a little bit off-topic, but you have to live in a very different world to believe that, as the Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian church still today. The only religion that is larger than it, not by an extremely large margin, is Islam (not sure if you split Islam in its different branches). The reality is that after a short initial resistance,…
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2015/07/papal-overl...
One of the more colorful moments, when the Pope owned England.
What we have left is the losers of a rear guard action which has been going on for 400 years.
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It doesn't matter. The Supreme Court's logic was "sure, every individual part of this is completely legal, but if you consider it as a black box, it feels like a different thing which is illegal, so we're going to treat it like it's illegal thing." That conclusion was pretty likely, but it's utterly baffling to someone who thinks about the law like a programmer. To put it in the Supreme Court's exact words: "Given Ae…
I always liked Antonin Scalia’s dissent in that case. “We came within one vote of declaring the VCR contraband 30 years ago in Sony [v. Universal] . The dissent in that case was driven in part by the plaintiffs’ prediction that VCR technology would wreak all manner of havoc in the television and movie industries. The Networks make similarly dire predictions about Aereo. We are told that nothing less than ‘the very ex…
Ah, the old "we're here to talk about laws, not justice" argument.
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I think the downvotes you're attracting give some indication for the HN crowd.
Not a single one of those stories was suppressed by the government in the U.S., which is what the article details happening in China. In fact many government officials supported and promoted those stories. Disagreement among private parties, or getting less private promotion than you wanted to get, is not “censorship”. It’s free speech in action.
How long were the FBI in possession of Hunter Biden's laptop, why is Mark Zuckerberg trying to blame them for the censorship of the NY Post's story, and do you consider the FBI to be part of the government?
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The Hunter Biden laptop story wasn't suppressed by the US government? Zuckerberg was on Rogan recently explaining that the FBI told him the story was Russian disinformation and Facebook took that to mean they should suppress the story and they did. Presumably something similar happened to Twitter and possibly other platforms. If memory serves former intelligence officials do go to mainstream media and say the story w…
In the sense that the government did not suppress it. The NY Post ran the story with zero legal consequences and people in the U.S. have published and spoken continuously about it from then until now.
The following stuff is censored in China: TV series or movies should be edited if they have the following content: (1) distorting Chinese and other countries’ culture and society; (2) defaming Chinese military forces, policemen, and judiciary; (3) showcasing obscenity content, either visual or verbal; (4) showcasing “excessive” images of murder, violence, horror, interrogation, drug-taking, and even gambling; (5) adv…
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The Hunter Biden laptop story wasn't suppressed by the US government? Zuckerberg was on Rogan recently explaining that the FBI told him the story was Russian disinformation and Facebook took that to mean they should suppress the story and they did. Presumably something similar happened to Twitter and possibly other platforms. If memory serves former intelligence officials do go to mainstream media and say the story w…
Good lord. If the government was so committed to “suppressing” those stories as you claim, they were awfully bad at it, as anyone who ever wanted to learn about them certainly won’t shut up about it. And I don’t see black helicopters anywhere picking you up to some secret prison. Unlike the ccp example here, where I would say they do have a great handle on what can and cannot be discussed on any public platform and d…
There's no need for quotes around suppressing as it was suppressed, objectively.
> they were awfully bad at it
It was done to sway an election, which went the way was desired, and without any legal blowback. That is not being "awfully bad at it".
> as anyone who ever wanted to learn about them certainly won’t shut up about it.
But at the time and when it was most important people were shut up regardless of whether they wanted to be.
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You are right that he conflated two types of censorship in the West. The first is as you say, eliminate it from mainstream media and let lunatics ramble about it on social media (vaccines, lab theory, etc.). This has an impact on the legitimacy of what's being said, and your exposure to these ideas. The second type of censorship is the outright ban of certain topics, such as the Hunter Biden laptop.
Really? The mainstream media didn’t cover the hunter biden laptop? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-...