| I agree that children are special and should be protected. As for adults, I am an amateur historian. History is jam packed with censorship of things those in power have deemed "harmful". Examples: 1. William Tyndale was burned at the stake for translating the Bible to English. 2. Galileo was put under house arrest for his heliocentric views. 3. Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for her play "Sex". 4. Boris Pasternak's novels were banned in the Soviet Union. 5. TV shows in the 1970s were not allowed to show toilets in the bathrooms. 6. Homosexuality could not be portrayed in films until the 1960s. 7. Howard Stern was fined $2.5m for "indecent" broadcasts. 8. Violence on film is far, far more graphic today than was allowed just a few years ago. 9. You can say "fuck" on TV today, along with nudity. And on and on it goes. Those censors were just as convinced as you are that they were doing the right thing. |