Parents need to take responsibility? When a 12 year old has his or her parents buying them R rated material for them, then they need to take responsibility. Just because one R rated movie had a few f-bombs, it doesn't mean they all will. Censorship sucks all around the world, but it's worst in the U.S. The only movies that are given NC-17 ratings are those that are pornographic or severely sexually explicit. Movies with 300 f-words and graphic, brutal violence are given R ratings, as are movies with 5 f-words and one or two sexual references.
When the parents can take responsibility, then they should take responsibility. It's not always the fault of the parents, which is something that many people fail to understand. If you're walking to the shops with your daughter, and you briefly pass a group of teenagers swearing and cursing like troopers, what can you do? Most people walk faster. You can't just turn it off. That isn't possible.
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disgusts me is newsagents that display magazines of a sexual nature with the rest of them. Newsagents stands in shopping centres too - even though you're just passing by, young children are exposed to that, if even briefly. Also when magazines decide to make their headline about a sex tape, or radio stations like to talk about these things at any time of day.
Irviding said:
The only thing that should be censored is child pornography.
Nothing needs to be censored on television or the internet. It's not the governments responsibility to protect your children from that type of content, it's yours as the parent.
Bullshit. So TV shows are allowed to show pornographic films at any time of day? If you were to search almost any seemingly innocent term into Google Images and turn safe search off, there are many things that shouldn't be there, irrelevant and disgusting. This should all be allowed through the filter, into the eyes of everyone? I think not.
Rokalyptica said:
Breast-feeding has become public, having sex in front of your window is tolerated, and sensual rubbing and touching in public is fine. There are many more things to list, but it's just too much.
Again, bullshit. I have seen breast-feeding in shopping centres a few times before, but that can't be helped, can it? Also, woman who breast-feed in public have enough self respect so to not show anything, and be very careful about it. Get your facts straight. Having sex in front of your window is never tolerated. Once again, people should have enough self respect (and they usually do), and you would only see enough for it to be considered explicit if you were standing right outside the window. Sensual rubbing and touching - elaborate, please.
If you want to say it's fine for people to kiss in public, go for it. It was fine for people to kiss in public 70 years ago, within reason. Do you have any idea how strong censorship was 70 years ago? In film, if a woman was lying in a bed, then man had to have both feet on the floor. Otherwise it was considered rude and inappropriate.
Rokalyptica said:
There are many other things that are sexual-related, but uncensored such as a man and woman making out on the beach in a movie, or some kind of woman-on-woman makeout section in part of a small scene of a movie.
For your first point, please refer to the last paragraph. Mine is a fact, yours isn't. And I've got a question in response to your second statement -
have you EVER seen a lesbian kiss in a G-rated movie?. That's a rhetorical question.
People are too young to understand certain topics. A 4 year old will not understand rape, murder or even death of pets until they're much older, but the first two are always in the news. In a movie, the mention of rape brings about a PG rating at the least. The News comes without a rating. Ponder that.
If forums deal with issues like these, implement COPPA. If someone says they're 13 when they're not, then they are a liar. They should be ashamed of themselves. If you want something deleted on a forum, more than one voice must be heard.
You may be offended if someone doesn't like your graphics, but nobody else would be.
Sbfc said:
Censorship is stupid, they censor out **** in family guy even though it's on at about 11pm usually and is a 15 :roll:.
This may be news to you, but fuck is a swear word. The use of fuck will bring about a PG-13 at the least, and there are children younger than 13 that are up past 9pm. I've seen Family Guy on TV as early as 8:30, so I think I blew your 11pm statement out of the water.
I fear what censorship will be like in 2050.
