On 9 Apr 2007 at 13:21:19 -0600, "Rob Smith" nobs03@gmail.com wrote:
So it's a simple question: the industry either self-regulates, or the government will self-regulate you on your behalf.
It was pretty much the exact same line of argument that led, in the 1950s, to the Comics Code Authority, a "voluntary" industrywide agreement to stifle the medium of comic books with a rigid, repressive code holding it back to the blandest possible content instead of leaving its artists and writers free to explore the wide range of human experience as other literary and artistic media could do. It took decades for the comics medium to escape that prison which it had built for itself.
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On 9 Apr 2007 at 13:21:19 -0600, "Rob Smith" nobs03@gmail.com wrote:
So it's a simple question: the industry either self-regulates, or the government will self-regulate you on your behalf.
It was pretty much the exact same line of argument that led, in the 1950s, to the Comics Code Authority, a "voluntary" industrywide agreement to stifle the medium of comic books with a rigid, repressive code holding it back to the blandest possible content instead of leaving its artists and writers free to explore the wide range of human experience as other literary and artistic media could do. It took decades for the comics medium to escape that prison which it had built for itself.
IIRC the movie studios did something similar back in the 1920s, and that lasted even longer. A classic movie like "Freaks" was longtime politically incorrect. D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance" was also not considered acceptable.
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