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• I say just blur it out (Score:2)

  by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) writes:

  I think all censorship should be blurred out items, so that they would still be obeying the law but countries with rabid censorship could see what was being denied them… over time being tired of the blurring could lead citizens to push for looser censorship.

  I’d also say all blurring should be defined in a meta-form that viewing clients would apply having been sent down separately from the video, that way you could quickly adapt blurring as laws changed, and hackers could get un-restricted content. 🙂

  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Impy the Impiuos Imp ( 442658 ) writes:

    How about a black “censored” rectangle with the controlling politician(s) mandating it listed?

    Let the people know who are the responsible ones.
  • Re: (Score:3)

    by Ryzilynt ( 3492885 ) writes:

    I think all censorship should be blurred out items, so that they would still be obeying the law but countries with rabid censorship could see what was being denied them… over time being tired of the blurring could lead citizens to push for looser censorship.

    I’d also say all blurring should be defined in a meta-form that viewing clients would apply having been sent down separately from the video, that way you could quickly adapt blurring as laws changed, and hackers could get un-restricted content. 🙂

    Oh no, you’ve never seen Japanese porn have you?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:

      Oh no, you’ve never seen Japanese porn have you?

      Nobody really has, it’s all blurry
  • How will the USA blur out “cunt” then? (Score:2)

    by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 ) writes:

    And will we get blurry images that clearly show a penis, distinguishable from a skin-colored leaf or something unusual and story-relevant down there?

    It’d be hilarious though, if my country, Germany, would blur out all the murder tools and war propaganda and Nazi paraphenelia and symbols. Many US movies would become one single large blur with the occasional bit of exposed skin still visible. 😉

    • P.S. I shall make a movie … (Score:2)

      by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 ) writes:

      … where the entire plot hinges on a neo-Nazi’s penis being circumcises (implying he’s actually a Jewish-Muslim American).

      There will also be somebody called “Kant” (actually pronounced “cunt”) that gets mentioned and called a lot. 😀
• Free speech and free expression forever. (Score:3)

  by Seven Spirals ( 4924941 ) writes: on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:41PM (#59367890)

  What’s weird is the way many people seem to want to embrace the censors and defend the suppressing speech-I-do-not-like as if there are no side effects. Netflix is a corporation. They have no soul and exist only for shareholder profit. Long live the bill of rights and the 1st Amendment.

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• Must be an interesting article…. (Score:2, Insightful)

  by Anonymous Coward writes:

  …but unfortunately MSMASH keeps posting articles THAT ARE PAYWALLED!!! I’ll be damned if I am going to give a dead tree publisher $10 to read one damn article.
• In the past (Score:2)

  by AHuxley ( 892839 ) writes:

  the world got to enjoy US freedoms.
  To see what a free nation could produce and export.
  Now the world gets to enjoy US censorship.
  To keep Communist in China happy.
  To keep some theocracy happy
  To allow for the politics of EU nations like Germany, France, Spain?
• Like there aren’t any censors in the US (Score:1)

  by nunick ( 6348434 ) writes:

  shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits!
• It’s how you do it… (Score:2)

  by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:

  Come with me
  And you’ll be
  In a world of censorship for nations
• It’s about time (Score:2)

  by the_skywise ( 189793 ) writes:

  I’m glad to see Netflix is getting into smello-vision with incense burning! They need something to distinguish themselves from Disney and Apple now!
• Hey, Erdogan, this is for protecting Baghdadi (Score:2)

  by hyades1 ( 1149581 ) writes:

  “In [Turkey], the streaming giant edited…a series about a teenage sex therapist, to blur a character’s hands so you couldn’t see the raised middle fingers.”

  No doubt the character had “Armenian” and “Genocide” tattooed on the offending digits.
• An attack on global culture (Score:2)

  by Chromal ( 56550 ) writes:

  The idea of undermining the integrity of the created work to appease the oppressors of artistic expression fills my mouth with the taste of vomit. Anyway, if you’re watching enough television to justify the cost of a Netflix subscription, you’re probably watching too much TV. If Netflix is going to fight dirty with cultural catration, then orioritize the best content and get it from alt.binaries.*.
• People are different. News at 11. (Score:2)

  by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 ) writes:

  Oh noes! The aren’t all goose-stepping to my own personal views and biases! The bastards!

  But … But … MY morals are THE absolute morals!
  And when *they* make the exact same claim, I am right and they are wrong!
  Let’s (op)press them (into my mold)!

  — Literally everyone.
  (But especially world polices. E.g. Religious, political or whatever.)

  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Seven Spirals ( 4924941 ) writes:

    This is why free speech is the only solution. However, there are people out there who believe that they have a right not to be offended.
• Not news (Score:2)

  by Pollux ( 102520 ) writes:

  Sorry, but this isn’t news.

  I watched the movie “Troy” in Cairo, Egypt in 2003. Years later, I saw the real “Troy”. Discovered all the naughty bits the Egyptian censors edited out for distribution. Hollywood’s been selling censored movies to the Middle East for decades. Money is money, no matter which country it comes from.

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