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The USA has more freedom of speech that many countries, but its heavily biased on certain ways. To show violence on TV is Ok, but to show a naked body makes peo
by Hokusai 6y ago
The USA has more freedom of speech that many countries, but its heavily biased on certain ways. To show violence on TV is Ok, but to show a naked body makes people go all full censorship.
That a nip slip in 2004 generated news around all the country and intensified fines on "indecency" is just plain ridiculous. That level of censorship is very difficult to justify when other countries are much more comfortable showing nudity.
So, the USA is not in a bad place when come to censorship. But, it has a long way to improve.
- walrus01 6y agoThe TV part is a legacy of 1950s era laws for free-to-air broadcast radio and television. You say the USA has a cultural aversion to nudity. But it also legally produces a vast quantity of legal pornography, and the web hosting companies for the world's largest online paid and advertising-supported pornography operations are all in the USA. And provided that things like ID age checking, consent and record-keeping are all followed, nobody is kicking in their doors and arresting the operators. There is no "full censorship" of nudity in the USA.