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The difference is that TV cuts and airline cuts, the two most parallel examples, are done with the oversight of the director and the original editor. (I know film editors--this is part of the job, one of the last steps in the cutting room) Plus, the director's contract (and it's the DGA who are suing Cleanflicks), calls for him to have that control and approval. Again, do you think it's fair to take a writer's work, bowdlerize it, then sell it with that author's name still on the cover? Especially over the objections of the writer? If I run a bookstore, can I buy an Ann Coulter book wholesale, make a xerox copy that cuts out everything objectionable to liberals, then put the copy in the original dust jacket and sell it?

That's a strawman argument. We aren't talking about a liberal gutting Ann Coulter's book. We're talking about removing profanity and / or nudity from a film so maybe younger people can watch it. Big difference, and you know it's a big difference. The example of how the director has a hand in the TV / airline version? What's the difference? That's EXACTLY what they do.......remove "vulgarities" from the film for more ready public consumption. I remove the word "s**t", he removes the word "s**t". Big deal. Tempest in a teapot.

No......it's very hypocritical.