Jul 03 2011

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart

Warning this video contains very graphic matter that you may not want to watch

Moral Kombat

The Supreme Court has good news for the makers of graphically violent video games and bad news for the makers of Super Mario Boners.

But just a provocatively posed naked body is a No-No.  

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  2. to click on the link yet. For that matter follow this story.  I’m not surprised the Roberts Court re-enforced the ugly american stereotype as a nation obsessed with violence porn. Gun violence = “healthy good clean fun”, Sex = “depravity and bad dirty fun”.  

    Insert Colbert miracle on ice chant here.

    U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A!

    I wonder, has there been much commentary about was this ruling in relation to Hollywood Movie ratings?

    Guess I have to get off my lazy ass and click on the links! Heh.

  3. At least as far as conventional hollywood movies go-

    Contrary to popular belief, MPAA ratings carry no force of local, state, or federal law anywhere in the United States. The MPAA’s rating system is administered by the Classification & Ratings Administration, which is not a government agency. MPAA ratings only serve as a consumer suggestion by a group of corporate analysts. After screening films, their personal opinions are used to arrive at one of five ratings. Theater owners voluntarily agree to enforce corporate film ratings as determined by the MPAA, which in turn facilitates their access to new film releases.

    It seems the ideology Scalia is really pushing with this decision is that any government regulation is bad. Businesses should “voluntarily regulate themselves”.  I’m sure he’d carve a little exception out for the Hyde Amendment if he didn’t already have the votes to overturn Roe. What a tool.

    I’ll have to surf a little more to recall that “You know porn when you see it” court ruling.

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