Re: "Bleep: Censoring Hollywood"

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
>
> [2] I can't help it, I'm a proud papa: pictures at
> <http://www.tjc.com/Maddy>.

Many congratulations to you and your wife!

> I never watch movies on TV, other than films that are sufficiently old
> that I can be pretty sure are not being cut up, because I want to see the
> whole thing; but I can see where others might have a different point of
> view. I will probably never take advantage of products like ClearPlay,
> but I don't see any reason not to allow others to. (And, I should
> probably never say never. My only child is just seven weeks old.[2] When
> she grows older and we watch movies together, say, maybe 10-12 years from
> now, I might really want something like this.))

Exactly. You or anyone should be able to edit out scenes that you do not think are appropriate for your child or even for yourself such as "The Grudge" that I watched the other day. This is no different from books that contain nude pictures or vulgar language. You would tear these nude pictures out or blacken vulgar language before handing the "censored" books to your kid or to other young kids. Unfortunately, this is not possible with the digital works. These film directors and artists are very arrogant that they think that their works should be treated as the sacred texts that nobody has the freedom to edit these works.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,989

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Fri May 06 2005 - 02:25:00 GMT