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In this era of global communication, I think the Protestant mores may be less important, relatively, than they once were. Edit: US based companies appear to me
by jshevek 6y ago
In this era of global communication, I think the Protestant mores may be less important, relatively, than they once were.
Edit: US based companies appear to me to at least as concerned with new markets than existing markers. In some cases, China and the middle east are the regions which motivate 'puritanical' discretion, not the US.
- monadic2 6y agoMaybe on the Internet, but Protestant values still rule America.
- coldtea 6y agoYeah, but they who make the software/social platforms also makes the decisions, and those are usually US companies. So even here in Europe we're imposed with US-based morals ("Oh, some nudity in a post photo! Bad! Censored, what would the advertisers say"), whereas in our own culture, left to its own devices, we could not care less about such things... Isn't this the era of the scale down of globalism though? (Trump, Brexit, US-China trade war, etc)
- franga2000 6y agoMaybe not protestant directly these days, but American puritanism is very much still very much alive and influencing technology. I doubt Facebook bans people for posting even slight nudity even in private groups just because of other countries.