Originally Posted by Zeraph

I'm still very much against this and censorship of any kind....here's a thought, if you don't want to see sex/violence/whatever don't watch it!

Here's a very simple, if unrealistic, example of why I don't like it. Say I'm an artist and I produce this sentence: "Killing is not good" but there is a censorship device that edits out negative words, so now the sentence is changed to "Killing is good". That is not my message, and to play it as if is were is cheating me, my work is presented as a lie, and I don't care if they know it's being censored that's not what I created it for.

You may still be thinking, its self censorship, what they do doesn't hurt me so who cares? But where does it stop? Should we start playing and censoring schindler's list in school and TV? Suddenly we have a generation of kids growing up that doesn't think nazi's are a big deal (not that this example is perfect, but I'm sure it can be applied to other examples you can think of, even if they arn't as big a deal) creating the possibility that it could happen again, or more of a possibility. Are books next? DL something on your computer to automatically edit online books? May not be a big deal now, but what happeens if books switch nearly completely to digital?

I suggest reading Fahrenheit 451, especially his essay at the end about censorship (may only be in certain prints, not sure).