State Censorship

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Re: State Censorship

Postby Thad » Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:08 pm

Grath wrote:Also while Pornhub is scummy and bad for the porn industry, Facebook has something like a million times more child sexual abuse imagery (that they're also profiting from, albeit slightly less directly.)


Yeah, I went back and forth on whether to put my post in this thread or the Antisocial Network one. Porn sites are politically easy targets, but they have a lot of the same scummy practices as Facebook, Twitter, and the rest.

(And, to be fair, the solutions aren't always easy. The people who Facebook and Google do hire to take down abusive content have an awful, awful job.)

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Re: State Censorship

Postby Thad » Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:21 am

'Maus,' Pulitzer Prize-winning book about Holocaust, is pulled from Tennessee school district

The decision was unanimous. The school board cited 8 curse words and an image of a naked woman as their justification.

The image of the naked woman is (CW suicide) Spiegelman's mother dead in a bathtub. It's a disturbing image, but, y'know, not because it's got bare breasts in it.

And that kinda describes these objections in a nutshell. If the argument was "this book is full of extremely disturbing material and we don't want young children reading it," that would still be a wrong position (there are kids in elementary school who aren't old enough to read Maus and kids who are; I read it for the first time when I was in fifth grade and don't feel it was age-inappropriate for 11-year-old me; the book's been in school libraries for over 30 years and if there were really a problem with age-inappropriate kids checking it out we would have heard of it before now), but at least they'd be concerned about the right thing.

What kind of sick fuck reads Maus and thinks the most concerning thing in it is curse words? What kind of sick fuck sees the image of a corpse in a bathtub and thinks the disturbing thing about it is that you can see her nipples?

That's rhetorical. As Neil Gaiman put it, "There's only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus, whatever they are calling themselves these days." I know exactly what kind of sick fuck votes to ban Maus. Spiegelman depicted them as cats.

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Re: State Censorship

Postby nosimpleway » Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:13 pm

I've been to McMinn county several times. Believe me, their position on any political issue comes as no surprise whatsoever.

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Re: State Censorship

Postby Thad » Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:35 pm

And I'm not surprised when it's 110 degrees out in the summertime, but I can still hate it.

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Re: State Censorship

Postby nosimpleway » Thu Jan 27, 2022 3:23 pm

Oh sure, it's definitely a bad take, no argument there

It's just the tip of the iceberg with that particular group of people is all

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