I’m fairly certain I understood your original question... I most likely just have a different view on censorship and the sharing of ideas & information, than you do. Maybe not, there’s some Q’s below that may illustrate better.
I am talking about what I truly think is inappropriate-seeing behaviors or if I think there is an inappropriate outfit, correlations. I should have stated that in my first post. I reiterate. That is what I mean. I think the FCC needs tighter rules and regulations/higher standards:my thoughts.
What does that, mean, though? What do you view as inappropriate/what standard do you think should be used? (For example, LDS Modesty vs Islamic Modesty, although both of those have fairly wide spectrums in and of themselves they’re different enough to ballpark different standards. Islam has far higher standards of dress than LDS, which has far higher standards than the law of the land). So whose standards does one apply? The highest standards available? Something middling? If so, how does one determine whose standards are correct for everyone else?
Similarly... what’s an inappropriate behavior to show on TV? Anyone breaking the law? Or only certain crimes? (And if so, which crimes are inappropriate?)
And inappropriate for whom? On what topics?
Are fictional stories different than factual or historical accounts? Should censorship apply equally to history, regardless of its inaccuracy?
((Just as a couple examples off the top of my head, it drives me a little bit crazy that most people think Patroclus was Achilles’ cousin, instead of his lover. But early censorship banned outright reference or depiction of homosexuality. So his “cousin” he became in modern tellings :rolleyes: Or another, 1:6 bodies in the US civil war mass graves were women in uniform. Not nurses, doxies, & darlings, nor -for the most part- women in men’s clothing, although there were some they were the minority. But mid century (1950s or thereabouts) women in combat became a taboo topic in the US, and references were struck from both school textbooks, tv, & film. If it weren’t for forensic anthropology & philogical societies attempting to preserve old books -like project Gutenberg- the fact that women fought in our Revolutionary & Civil Wars? Would be completely lost, and most people still don’t know it. Because mid century censors thought it inappropriate.))
Whenever anyone starts talking about appropriate/inappropriate... there’s simply no universal definition of that. Different cultures, governments, religions, families, and individuals all have widely varying standards. So if you’re going to apply any set of standards to “everyone”? That’s something that has to be defined, as my standards might be -and probably are- higher/lower/different than yours.
