Movie/TV ratings allow for a wide range of material, the worse thing that could happen is that your movie/tv show will be given a mature rating, but it can still be seen by those who want to do so. If I make a porn movie I can get it into the distribution channel and eventually it will reach whoever wants to watch it.
Unless, of course, you happen to live in a place where the ratings board has fallen into the trap which I mentioned. Take the BBFC for example: remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Not if you live in the UK you don't, because over there they were known as Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles. God forbid kids should come across the word 'Ninja', which was deemed too violent for their impressionable young minds. I could also point out many other cases of BBFC censorship related to movies. Or the outright banning of video games. Not to mention their obsession with nunchuks...
The BBFC is just one example of an apparently benign "gatekeeper" gone bad. I could give you many others, but if you substitute BBFC for Apple you get a glimpse of what happens when someone in that position starts playing censor.
And I need to rant a bit less...
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Posted by Bogomips on Mar 8, 2008 five to five pm
Unless, of course, you happen to live in a place where the ratings board has fallen into the trap which I mentioned. Take the BBFC for example: remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Not if you live in the UK you don't, because over there they were known as Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles. God forbid kids should come across the word 'Ninja', which was deemed too violent for their impressionable young minds. I could also point out many other cases of BBFC censorship related to movies. Or the outright banning of video games. Not to mention their obsession with nunchuks...
The BBFC is just one example of an apparently benign "gatekeeper" gone bad. I could give you many others, but if you substitute BBFC for Apple you get a glimpse of what happens when someone in that position starts playing censor.
And I need to rant a bit less...