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I'm actually okay with this. I only watch movies with my family and I'm sick of having to pass up on actually interesting movies because they're excessively vulgar.

If there was a service I could pay to censor movies for me, I would.



> If there was a service I could pay to censor movies for me,

We used to have a number of them. Cleanfilms was one. Send them a DVD, they'd sanitize the content onto another disc, ruin the original and send you both.

Legacy copyright gatekeepers couldn't resist their own compulsions for control - they systematically sued CF and others out of existence.

ref:https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=554802...

ref:https://www.audioholics.com/news/studios-sue-family-friendly...


Yeah, I actually prefer a minimal sex scene (conveying the idea that it happened) to the explicit and lengthy stuff in your average HBO mini-series. Even less tolerant of sexual violence and torture. When I think of how many fake rapes I’ve witnessed/mentally onboarded via cinema/tv it makes me throw up a bit.


I've linked to it in the past but I think it's relevant again.

"Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies", 2019. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3342908


fascinating.




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