Censorship or basic decency?

[docicu3]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Here is a link to a hot topic as documented in the Huffington Post, I found it of course cause Joss Whedon cared enough to comment on the issue (first of the comments below the article)...it is the type of issue that always creates a stir...and plenty of emotions. I have always maintained that freedom of speech is not an absolute, that "speech" that harms others is not protected. The other issue here of course is government vs private response.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-s...m_b_44404.html

As much as I agree with your sentiment in concept as the violation of material like this at it's core is nothing less than vulgarity beyond reasonable rights of freedom of speech.

I would just be very very careful about sanctioning censorship of this nature lest you open the door for government action of same on far lesser threatening material.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by docicu3

As much as I agree with your sentiment in concept as the violation of material like this at it's core is nothing less than vulgarity beyond reasonable rights of freedom of speech.

I would just be very very careful about sanctioning censorship of this nature lest you open the door for government action of same on far lesser threatening material.

Don't disagree...keep in mind, it's not the government that would act here but the industry itself in giving it a restrictive rating. Putting stuff like this on a public billboard thereby forcing folks to see it is the issue for me. You want to make garbage and call it a movie, the boxoffice will take care of that, but publicly displaying gratuitous violence is over the line imo.

[SOREHOOF]

It probably shouldn't be on a billboard but that is what decency has devolved into. When the columnist put Abu Ghraib in the same sentence with the Holocaust she lost all credibility with me.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

If I had to choose between being baked to a crisp---or having a bunch of naked men piled ontop of me---I'd settle for the former in a heartbeat.

[SOREHOOF]

Me too, but if the choice is worked or starved to death, or some kind of diobolical medical experiment it gets a little tougher. If the choice was having naked women piled on me and they all looked like that bimbo who was in the photos and subsequently arrested I might pick the oven.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

The real rough looking girl with the dog leash? Or that other girl who had the blue gloves who was always smiling and giving the thumbs up?

I agree with you about the former.....it's a coin-flip with the latter.