Thank you! :D

It seems to me like this is encouraging censorship. There’s already enough of that in this country as it is.

1. You don’t have to submit your picture through the MPAA. You can go independent. If you go through the MPAA (which most big-budget films do), you must follow its guidelines, simple as that. That is not censorship, that is good business practice.

2. There isn’t enough censorship in this country. Some people need to just shut their mouths. The right to free speech isn’t a right to act like an idiot. It is the right to speak out against the government. We all need to go back and look at the reason that we were given certain rights. We take a law and apply it in ways that it was never supposed to be applied.

3. I think that the founding fathers would be appalled to see what we have become today.

Ever wonder why a majority of the world speaks English?

Troy, your comment scares the hell out of me. You honestly think we’re justified in torturing people because it might, in some way, help us? There’s another famous person who felt exactly the same way that you do. His name was Stalin.

And if your a reader too then i reccomend the book “the history of censorship” which again is another cheeky look into the industry (the brittish one admittedly, but where else do you americans get your ideas . . . )

Yes, and then we could rip out our very souls while we’re at it.

Because the fact is that if we stoop to the level of our enemies, then wherefore do we bother to call them enemies?

If we torture in the name of freedom, then we surrender the right to the term. And if we lower ourselves to the level of the worst of the worst, then let the worst of the worst win; indeed, they already will have.

Can’t have it both way children. If it weren’t for strong leaders we would all be speaking some tyrants language and bowing to whatever god they ordered us too, even you people who don’t believe in one.

Seriously I never understand it. Torture is torture, and a childs mind should not be exposed to the sight of it, regardless of it’s significance to a religious group.

The movies are going to make it to the big screen regardless, and children will go see it, and in most cases WITH their parents. It is FICTION. The real events is what they should be worried about.

How about kidnappings, rapes, murders, or robberies that happen around this country EVERY day.

I am positive that children will be just as tramatized if they watched the news and learned what devastating events are happening overseas.

Not to mention the relentless coverage of 9/11 and Katrina or any other major event that has happened to Americans recently. That wont effect our children at all.

- a very moderate reader who is extremely pissed at the bullshit partisanship that is destroying this country

Not sure what standards there are in other countries, but I don’t think any of the posters would have been cleared here in the UK; except the last one*. There is nothing overt or in your face that tells you that the last poster concerns the Nazi style concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay. As someone else mentioned, you would need a prior knowledge of several things to understand. First that the man hooded as a political prisoner of the United States of Anarchy, second that there has long been critisism of the US treatment of human beings (yes real life people) at G. Bay; lastly that under the Bush reign of terror there has been no accountability or investigations carried out into this matter.

*I could be wrong on the severed hand poster, I am not into these violence for violence sake films. Give me a good honest horror film like Evil Dead.

Indeed! I’m tired of having censorship imposed on me because parents can’t be bothered to do their damn job and watch what their kids are exposed to. I’m not you kids’ babysitter. I shouldn’t have to watch what I write, draw, view or say (and I won’t- not even in public) because you can’t be bothered to watch them.

Reminds me of one time at a grocery store. I was talking to my fiance (then boyfriend) and used the word ‘fuck’. Well, some bitch dressed like one of those conservative women (plain dress to the ankles, long sleeves and the ridiculous hairdo) with her 5 kids has the gall to turn to me and orders me to watch my language because her kids might hear it. I promptly told her to fuck off, that it’s a free(?) country. She just left. Too bad for her, because I’m not going to walk on eggshells just because I might happen to offend someone.

The kids will probably hear it from TV and school anyway. I heard it from my parents at least 4 dozen times a day as a kid, and I’m not some raging psychopath or violent criminal. But I do swear like a drunken sailor, and there’s nothing wrong with that, as far as I’m concerned. People tell me that I must be lacking intelligence for it, but I kindly inform them that I scored a 127 IQ in highschool. Most of the population of the US has an IQ under 100.

A great quote I once heard:

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak because a baby can’t chew it.”