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I hate censorship, and I do everything I can to put it down, but if I were to be fair, calling it "arbitrary" is a little biased. It certainly follows a logic of escalating offensiveness, but beyond that it's an example of how mislead the ideal of "free speech" is in the "land of freedom".

EDIT: Also, this isn't in support of "boobs", neither the female kind or the kind in front of the camera (though often the latter deserves it so much more). Phrasing your anti-censorship arguments in this way just prove the censors point, and belittle the conversation from the get-go.

Don't label this nsfw!

Free the god damned nipple


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I'm definitely not seeing any actual legitimate censorship issue and no legitimate point or argument--and certainly no censorship "rule." There is no rule or law against showing nipples on the internet. The decision to blur the photograph was made entirely by this V Magazine at their own discretion for their own reasons.

Compared to many western countries, the United States is relatively light on censorship precisely because of the codification of the first amendment. There are very few circumstances in which the federal government uses criminal law to enforce censorship, and using civil law to do likewise (such as in cases of libel) is relatively hard. Naturally, the truth on the ground is always more complex, because of all of the ways you can sneak sort-of-censorship into local and state laws such school boards determining public school curriculums, shady contracts, and discriminatory public decency laws. That last, which is really more what this guy is arguing about in a ham-fisted way.

I certainly don't believe there should be different laws for men and for women. If a bare-chested man in public is acceptable, I believe a bare-chested woman should be just as acceptable. In this case, I'd go so far as to say I believe that should be federal law, but that can likewise backfire in ways I don't agree with (eg, I believe wether to allow concealed handguns should be a local decision), so I'm not quick to make blanket statements.

Certainly the US is socially and psychologically backward in many, many ways, but it's also better in that respect now on balance than it has ever been in the past.

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