In hindsight the MPAA rating system seemed like a great idea. In some ways it still is. Giving movies a ratings is good for parents in terms of making sure some of them know the content that's in a movie before letting a child see it. That's what's nice about the MPAA rating system. And it would be nicer if it actually worked. The MPAA ratings board mostly consists of people who will watch movies and take notes on the content that's … more
In hindsight the MPAA rating system seemed like a great idea. In some ways it still is. Giving movies a ratings is good for parents in terms of making sure some of them know the content that's in a movie before letting a child see it. That's what's nice about the MPAA rating system. And it would be nicer if it actually worked.
One of the greatest - and most subversive - effects of the Interweb has been the total collapse of censorship. Centuries of unelected secretive bodies deciding what we should and shouldn't see, think or do have been comprehensively sidelined by the web, where control is handed back to the viewer. In a world where teenagers are 'sexting' each other with lewd images on their cell phones (and bizarrely enough being charged with sex crimes designed to protect minors), and every connected … more
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