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Originally Posted by GeorgeJetson
It is also necessary to protect children from things they shouldn't see or hear,until there are mature enough to deal with those issues and situations responsibly.
This is why people can't walk around naked in public and porno magazines have brown paper wrappers.
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Europe has much more sexual content in movies and TV shows (including nudity on broadcast TV) and far less violent content than the US, yet they have far lower crime rates.
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Freedom doesn't mean "anything goes,do whatever you want"
what about the people who argue that right and wrong and man made concepts that shouldnt apply to them? Should those people be allowed to rape,steal and kill?
Freedom isn't free there must be checks and balances to ensure the greater good.
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IMHO, freedom is an absolute until it infringes on someone else's rights. Obviously no one has the right to steal from or injure anyone else.
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I agree that censorship is and has been misued for certain agendas in the past and well as now,and I am not in favor of bookburnings or blacklists,but let's not pretend that there isn't censorship going on now.
History and news are spun to fit todays current politcal agenda,and certain classic books like are either censored or banned from school librarys.
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And there are strong movements to expose, prevent and overturn such actions.
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I do find it funny though,that in these supposedly more open times we censor 30+ year old tv shows like Sanford & Son and All in the Family,as well as vintage Tom & Jerry and Bugs Bunny cartoons,yet Chris Rock can spout racial ephitats non stop for 30 minutes and nobody has a problem with that.
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I don't think Chris Rock is going to be doing that on broadcast TV at 4pm. More likely on HBO at 9pm.
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Why are networks still afraid to run "Amos 'n Andy" the first show with an all black cast? Should we censor the past to fit todays political agenda?
Arguing that that show makes black people look bad is the same as saying the three stooges makes white people look stupid.
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One is full of racial stereotypes, the other isn't. It's an economic decision, anyway. The only people stopping such shows from being aired today are those making the financial decisions. If the advertisers don't want something on the air, it's not going to be there.
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By the way,what was the murder rate in 1957 compared to now?
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According to the FBI, it was 4.0 per 100,000. In 2007 it was 5.9. In 1967 it was 6.2, and didn't fall back below 6 until 1999. The peak was 10.2 in 1980.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873729.html
1957 was the low point in modern times. The rate was approximately 2.0/100,000 in 1900, climbed steadily up through the 1930s, then nose-dived again post-Prohibition and during the busy and prosperous post-war years. There is one very simple item that corresponds rather neatly with the murder rate - the bans against certain chemicals (including alcohol) and the subsequent rise of the criminal underworld to run the black market economy. Prohibition didn't work, and still doesn't. Pgs. 38-39 have the complete 1900-1998 chart. 1933 was very close to 1980.
http://www.jrsa.org/programs/Historical.pdf