Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content

Re:Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Con... by partiallypro on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:45AM (#18746017)

The US has pretty liberal standards on pornography and art...I mean most pornography and such art is produced in the US itself. Tasteful nudity in the US is not frowned upon, perhaps in public, yes...but I don't know of many countries where that isn't frowned upon outside beaches. I'm not sure what you're referring to, or if you are that familiar with the US. The UK on the other hand and some other European countries...and many Eastern countries are battling porn/nudity if not outright banning it. With the UK even requiring you to register with your ISP. The US's FCC does have some stringent guidelines, but their restrictions only apply to OTA. What countries have a more liberal view? France? Germany? Spain, a few small countries here and there, maybe? Otherwise...not many others.

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Re:Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Con... by sangnoir on Sunday December 23, 2018 @11:41AM (#18746994)

> I mean most pornography and such art is produced in the US itself

Most US pornography is produced in San Fernando Valley - I don't think you can generalize porn/nude art across the US so perhaps you ought to have said "California has pretty liberal standards on pornography and art".

Janet Jackson's Nipplegate wouldn't have been a big deal in any of the European countries you mentioned, but Americans were scandalized.

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Re:Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Con... by shams93 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @12:33PM (#18747244)

Most porn USED to be produced in the SF Valley, I used to work in the industry. A whole series of new laws forced the industry out of California. My old boss sells insurance now. A lot of modern porn is now produced in eastern europe. Basically no new porn is produced in SFV, only the softcore companies like Vivid are still in business here.

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Re:Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Con... by sangnoir on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:43PM (#18748873)

I know free porn on the web was debilitating to the industry; however, to my knowledge no US state is close to CA's production, even now; which was my point, it's not like there's a whole lot of (professional) porn coming out of OH, MS or IL

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Re:Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Con... by Fjolsvith on Sunday December 23, 2018 @07:16PM (#18749342)

In Kansas you must have a license to produce porn legally (to do so otherwise is a felony that district attorneys vigorously prosecute), and the state government doesn't operate an office to issue those licenses.

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Re:Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Con... by laumars on Sunday December 23, 2018 @11:42AM (#18746995)

My experience is actually the reverse. USA weirdly conservative about nudity - to the point that Americans often confuse nudity and pornography (as you had done in your post replying to a person talking about nonsexual nudity).

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Re:Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Con... by partiallypro on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @12:50PM (#18758326)

I don't believe I confused pornography with nudity, I am merely stating that pornography and nudity are both fairly accepted outlets in the US. I do believe that many foreign people (largely Europeans) believe the US is very conservative in regards to nudity and are just flat wrong...likely because they have very limited experience in the US.

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