Well it's your responsibility to protect his little innocent mind, not someone elsesemeraldrafael said:
Poll: Censorship
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I think censorship for the most part is detrimental to society, at least any society that values freedom. I think there is a level though where censorship is appropriate to protect the general population of children from concepts that are too advanced. I think it should be available to children but it should up to the parents to determine the maturity of their child and what they allow them to interact with.
I think that things that would offend the general public should be hidden, but they should be completely accessible upon demand. For an example: I don't think it would be appropriate to hang a 30 foot poster of a couple hundred disemboweled people in a mass grave above a metro station, but I do think the content should be available to the public freely. When it comes to TV, I'm not sure how to regulate that sort of content and make it profitable under this scheme, but eventually it'll be all streaming on-demand content anyway.
I think that things that would offend the general public should be hidden, but they should be completely accessible upon demand. For an example: I don't think it would be appropriate to hang a 30 foot poster of a couple hundred disemboweled people in a mass grave above a metro station, but I do think the content should be available to the public freely. When it comes to TV, I'm not sure how to regulate that sort of content and make it profitable under this scheme, but eventually it'll be all streaming on-demand content anyway.
Swearing should not be censored, it's just words. The only reason anyone thinks that they're bad is because people keep pretending that they're bad. There is no actual valid reason to claim they are bad, though. So if we stopped acting like they were bad, people would realize that they aren't and stop throwing a hissy fit over them.
Says the guy from the country where public outcry stopped Wii Dare from ever even having the chance to hit store shelves. Of course, you yourself aren't actually extremely sensitive, right? Well, neither am I. So lay off the sweeping generalizations.MelasZepheos said:
i think censorship for age range should stand, but out right banning is a no in my book.
oh yeah, n the hate stuff, more than happy to have that banned. dont really care if i'm ruining someones freedom of speech
oh yeah, n the hate stuff, more than happy to have that banned. dont really care if i'm ruining someones freedom of speech
Age restriction is one thing.
Censorship is another.
I totally agree with film / game ratings, but completely disagree with censorship.
This obsession of a group of people trying to "protect" the general public is bullshit.
Society's sick drive to normalise everything will eventually lead to mass revolution. Look at history, and you will see that prohibition doesn't work. Ever.
The same way that Alcohol and tobacco - two of the most addictive and dangerous drugs out there are perfectly legal for anyone above a certain age - why shouldn't people of a certain age be allowed to watch gore or sex?
The double standards we have are incredibly sickening.
Censorship is another.
I totally agree with film / game ratings, but completely disagree with censorship.
This obsession of a group of people trying to "protect" the general public is bullshit.
Society's sick drive to normalise everything will eventually lead to mass revolution. Look at history, and you will see that prohibition doesn't work. Ever.
The same way that Alcohol and tobacco - two of the most addictive and dangerous drugs out there are perfectly legal for anyone above a certain age - why shouldn't people of a certain age be allowed to watch gore or sex?
The double standards we have are incredibly sickening.
Things like the government, things that the public literally shouldn't know for very good reasons, that sort of thing should be censored. However, from an entertainment perspective, or things like porn or swearing or violence, that shouldn't be censored, but should be educated about and forewarned so people have the free choice not to partake in it if they don't want to. That's one of the many reasons I disagreed with Wikileaks while most of my liberal friends (and I'm pretty liberal myself) supported it - the fact is, that site couldn't tell the difference, or didn't care about that line and just printed literally everything without a thought to whether it would or wouldn't be sensible to do so...
I'm not particularly fond of state censorship, and you're not going to find too many advocates of it on an internet message board for a gaming/pop culture website. It's kind of a silly question. It's rather like going to a MADD forum and asking what they think of binge drinking.
So, state censorship sucks. But self-censorship? Self-censorship is underrated, and hugely under-utilized, especially online. It's really just another word for "tact". And tact is just a skill...like lying, or judo, or math. It's something you're supposed to acquire naturally as part of the process of socialization as you age. It's something a lot of people (again, especially online) seem to feel is beneath them, as they cower behind their fundamental misunderstanding of their first amendment rights to try and avoid the righteous ass-beating they merit for being an insufferable douche canoe for the 15th time that day.
So, state censorship sucks. But self-censorship? Self-censorship is underrated, and hugely under-utilized, especially online. It's really just another word for "tact". And tact is just a skill...like lying, or judo, or math. It's something you're supposed to acquire naturally as part of the process of socialization as you age. It's something a lot of people (again, especially online) seem to feel is beneath them, as they cower behind their fundamental misunderstanding of their first amendment rights to try and avoid the righteous ass-beating they merit for being an insufferable douche canoe for the 15th time that day.
No censorship, of any kind, in any situation. Period. Censorship should be, at best, an internal mechanism, very private.
Paraphrasing Lenny Bruce: ?If you can't say Fuck, you can't say, Fuck the government.?
Paraphrasing Lenny Bruce: ?If you can't say Fuck, you can't say, Fuck the government.?
This is the free world and if my government thinks they can ban stuff from me, they can go fuck themselves. When I look at a country like Australia where every game with something more severe then a nosebleed is getting censored, I always think: ''Why are they taking this so well? Don't you wan't to decide for yourselves whether or not you you want to be in ankle high blood or not?''
One that is a relatively controversial point, or at least over here, is ''Mein Kampf'', whihc as we all know, was written by Adolf Hitler himself. Now before I say anything else, I will say that I don't agree with Hitler and that what he has done, we wish we could forget it. But banning this book for it's contents, that makes us do and that is exactly what worries me. If we forget what happend, and how it happend, it's going to happen again. Isn't the point of all those memorials, monuments, to remeber what happend, so that we'll never have to relive it? If someone can sneak up from under the radar, like Hitler, isn't going wrong again at one point if we keep doing this?
One that is a relatively controversial point, or at least over here, is ''Mein Kampf'', whihc as we all know, was written by Adolf Hitler himself. Now before I say anything else, I will say that I don't agree with Hitler and that what he has done, we wish we could forget it. But banning this book for it's contents, that makes us do and that is exactly what worries me. If we forget what happend, and how it happend, it's going to happen again. Isn't the point of all those memorials, monuments, to remeber what happend, so that we'll never have to relive it? If someone can sneak up from under the radar, like Hitler, isn't going wrong again at one point if we keep doing this?
Nooooo! I hate censorship so much! Why should my fun be ruined because a 6 year old happens to be in the same room? Art should never have limits, if it has to have anything, it should have requirements.
I think this is a really good point. Most rational people agree that censorship has to exist on some level (see lots of good examples above about making bombs, hate speech, child porn, troop deployments etc).Dango said:
To me the more important question is how is being censored, and who is censoring it? The government censorship process must be transparent, with producers of content allowed a fair hearing to question and appeal censorship decisions, the people should have input to ensure that the body responsible for censorship is representative and not pressured by minority lobby groups (eg religious groups). The criteria by which submitted materials are judged must be fully disclosed to the public and regularly (and publicly) reviewed.
When it comes to language (swearing/cussing) I really don't see a point in censoring, I someone were to say "For **** sake!" or "**** you!" it's obvious what word comes to mind that is being beeped out, therefore no need for censoring. Nudity, on the other hand, is a different thing, if there were nudity in a movie/game, a person under 18 years of age shouldn't be watching that scene, according to age ratings given to a movie/game (but hardly any of us actually care about age ratings anyway.)