Hey, freepatriot,besides being very young, you need to learn some American history.
Okay gang,here's the skinny on American censorship....
From colonial times, until the late '50s,when the damn broke, THERE WAS PERVASIVE,BLANTANT, AND A GIGANTIC AMOUNT OF CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA,RE BOOKS, SONGS,MOVIES,PLAYS,T.V.& RADIO PROGRAMING,AND MAGAZINES!
Rather than "harm" anyone,it actually was a good thing.It forced writers to be more clever,it kept pordnography and obsencities out of the public arena.Was there also ADULT fare? Of course there was.Could people get their hands on porn?Yep, they could,but it wasn't IN YOUR FACE,children were NOT exposed to it all of the time,and that really was a food thing.
BANNED IN BOSTON, IS NOT JUST THE NAME OF SOME OLD BAND! For those of you,who are completly uneducated about this subject,Boston used to be NOTORIOUS for it's " BLUE LAWS" and many movies,books,plays,andx paintings USED to be BANNED IN BOSTON!
Think that New York,often referred to as " SIN CITY", in times gone by,was removed from such behavior/having Blue Laws? WELL,THINK AGAIN!In 1927,during its run on Broadway,May West was pulled into court,her play,"SEX", shut down,and so were two others..."VIRGIN MAN" and ' THE CAPTIVE",whoich was about the seduction of a married woman, by a lesbian.
Books,such as "LADY CHATERLEY'S LOVER",were banned from being published,imported,and sold in the USA,until 1959/60 band that's a pretty "bland" book."NAKED LUNCH"? You couldn't openly buy that book,anywhere in America,until the end of the 1960s.Even Ben Franklin's lurid books,which WERE published in France, were FORBIDDEN on our soil!
Mario Savio,on the Berkley campus, started the " FREE SPEECH" movement in the mid 1960s.Free speech? Well, he and his compatriots wanted everyone to go around saying the F word and more.He won, which opened the floodgates and THAT didn't make this a better nation to live in.
Okay, it may be the height of silliness,that the word " pregnant" was NOT allowed to be used,especially NOT in connection with an unmarried woman,in the movies And it might make some of the younger people reading this thread shudder at the idea that Clark Gabel saying " FRANKLY MY DEAR,I DON'T GIVES A DAMN",in 1938's "GONE WITH THE WIND",was shocking beyond belief and almost caused people to boycot the movie because such horrible language was used;but,that's a fact.
Some censorship IS a good thing.
Amen to everything you just said.