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Re:Do not Draw a Penis by coldtea on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:16PM (#23186246)
>This is similar to how there are emoji for eyes, hands, feet, hearts, anatomical hearts, lungs, ears, etc. But not a single emoji about genitals. Not even boobs.

So, basically protestant puritanism?

Re:Do not Draw a Penis by jshevek on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:08PM (#23186733)
In this era of global communication, I think the Protestant mores may be less important, relatively, than they once were.

Edit: US based companies appear to me to at least as concerned with new markets than existing markers. In some cases, China and the middle east are the regions which motivate 'puritanical' discretion, not the US.

Re:Do not Draw a Penis by franga2000 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:06PM (#23187323)
Maybe not protestant directly these days, but American puritanism is very much still very much alive and influencing technology. I doubt Facebook bans people for posting even slight nudity even in private groups just because of other countries.
Re:Do not Draw a Penis by monadic2 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:28PM (#23186939)
Maybe on the Internet, but Protestant values still rule America.
Re:Do not Draw a Penis by coldtea on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:45PM (#23187144)
Yeah, but they who make the software/social platforms also makes the decisions, and those are usually US companies. So even here in Europe we're imposed with US-based morals ("Oh, some nudity in a post photo! Bad! Censored, what would the advertisers say"), whereas in our own culture, left to its own devices, we could not care less about such things...

Isn't this the era of the scale down of globalism though? (Trump, Brexit, US-China trade war, etc)