century of censorship
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:31 pm
Being a great one for anniversaries, you might like to know that the
BBFC is 100 years old in October (actually it started censoring British
movies on Jan 1st 2013 but came into existence slightly earlier). The
first national censorship board was in Sweden a couple of years earlier.
And the first thing the official censor did there was ban any film in
which ******** was broken - in case it encouraged servants and the
lower classes to do more of the same !! Reformers, bluenoses, folk
who tell you what will and will not deprave you (but never affect them),
the "thought police" remain with us !!! Hypocrites the lot of them !
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BBFC is 100 years old in October (actually it started censoring British
movies on Jan 1st 2013 but came into existence slightly earlier). The
first national censorship board was in Sweden a couple of years earlier.
And the first thing the official censor did there was ban any film in
which ******** was broken - in case it encouraged servants and the
lower classes to do more of the same !! Reformers, bluenoses, folk
who tell you what will and will not deprave you (but never affect them),
the "thought police" remain with us !!! Hypocrites the lot of them !
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