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And breast feeding, nudity. But then I guess other countries have their own weird little taboo's. More and more I see America having a lot of Puritan values, w

And breast feeding, nudity. But then I guess other countries have their own weird little taboo's. More and more I see America having a lot of Puritan values, which is spreading. Even countries who wouldn't have freaked about penis or saying fuck on tv, suddenly find themselves adding pixelation and muted audio to their native language

jsmthrowaway 11y ago
We are getting far more socially liberal in general. I've noticed a shift even in the last decade. Those of us in America who would identify as socially liberal know where the puritanical values are, and those places are becoming less and less able to generate a national uproar over family values as time goes on and liberal youth get older. Compare American television from even the late 90s to now. It's absolutely night and day. We have a long way to go on chilling out about sex (it's a weird line to draw given our fetish for violence), but the trend is definitely in that direction. The problem with America is that we are really eight or nine different nations stitched together, and it shows not only in our divisions on family values in different parts of the country but also our growing inability to agree.
- mratzloff 11y ago
  Just in the last few years the word "shit" started to be acceptable on television. A single usage on TV in the 1990s or 2000s would have been a local news segment. Now, no one cares. It's changing, but slowly.
  - curiously 11y ago
    would love to know more about how tv changed during past few decades. There is definitely a change but hard to put in to words.
DanBC 11y ago
For a while there was really confusing Facebook blocks of any images of mothers breast feeding their children but no blocks of beheading videos. It was weird.
- __z 11y ago
  Facebook also doesn't allow violent content so I assume you meant selective enforcement?
  - DanBC 11y ago
    From Dec 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24608499 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24608499 > Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again. > The social network had introduced a temporary ban in May following complaints that the clips could cause long-term psychological damage. [...] > Its terms and conditions now state that it will remove photos or videos that "glorify violence" in addition to other banned material, including a woman's "fully exposed breast". So,(in 2013) they allow beheading videos so long as you're not glorifying violence. http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/facebook-actually-sorry-for-banning-breastfeeding-pic/ http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/facebook-actually-sorry-for-bann... And in 2013 breastfeeding mothers were banned from Facebook. The breast feeding policy changed in 2014 http://huffpost.com/us/entry/5473467 http://huffpost.com/us/entry/5473467

jsmthrowaway 11y ago

We are getting far more socially liberal in general. I've noticed a shift even in the last decade. Those of us in America who would identify as socially liberal know where the puritanical values are, and those places are becoming less and less able to generate a national uproar over family values as time goes on and liberal youth get older. Compare American television from even the late 90s to now. It's absolutely night and day. We have a long way to go on chilling out about sex (it's a weird line to draw given our fetish for violence), but the trend is definitely in that direction. The problem with America is that we are really eight or nine different nations stitched together, and it shows not only in our divisions on family values in different parts of the country but also our growing inability to agree.

mratzloff 11y ago
Just in the last few years the word "shit" started to be acceptable on television. A single usage on TV in the 1990s or 2000s would have been a local news segment. Now, no one cares. It's changing, but slowly.
- curiously 11y ago
  would love to know more about how tv changed during past few decades. There is definitely a change but hard to put in to words.

DanBC 11y ago

For a while there was really confusing Facebook blocks of any images of mothers breast feeding their children but no blocks of beheading videos. It was weird.

__z 11y ago
Facebook also doesn't allow violent content so I assume you meant selective enforcement?
- DanBC 11y ago
  From Dec 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24608499 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24608499 > Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again. > The social network had introduced a temporary ban in May following complaints that the clips could cause long-term psychological damage. [...] > Its terms and conditions now state that it will remove photos or videos that "glorify violence" in addition to other banned material, including a woman's "fully exposed breast". So,(in 2013) they allow beheading videos so long as you're not glorifying violence. http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/facebook-actually-sorry-for-banning-breastfeeding-pic/ http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/facebook-actually-sorry-for-bann... And in 2013 breastfeeding mothers were banned from Facebook. The breast feeding policy changed in 2014 http://huffpost.com/us/entry/5473467 http://huffpost.com/us/entry/5473467