Yeah, but blowing up people on TV shows, with blood and body parts going everywhere is perfectly alright.

That is the thing with censorship, it isn't consequent.

Different cultures each have their own standards for what is and is not considered offensive, and each culture thinks that its standards are correct. That isn't hypocrisy, it's just how this whole topic works. There are no two human cultures in history which have entirely agreed on what is and isn't offensive, so why do people feel the need to pick on Americans specifically? It strikes me as extremely narrow-minded.

Because Americans love to push their standards on the rest of the world, specially American companies with high control of Internet contents.

Then again, the current geopolitic clima has proven the time we are supposed to be all friends across the technology field, is coming to an end, and every nation is better off putting effort in ramping up with own siloed technology with less dependency in foreign nations.

> so why do people feel the need to pick on Americans specifically

Who is the main exporter of entertainment in the world?

90% of Europe doesn't care about America's prudeness. We see you as socially outdated and far from what you are trying to show us from Hollywood.

I'm from Europe. Whether it is seen socially outdated or not is orthogonal to the fact that US is the main exporter.

Just go through your cinema/streaming service and count how many of the movies/shows/music are from US.

Including porn, which is kind of ironic given the puritanical nature being discussed, and not being consequential.

> but blowing up people on TV shows, with blood and body parts going everywhere is perfectly alright.

Don't worry, it is becoming "not alright" already. Completely sanitized movies where people are being thrown like a ragdoll, land on asphalt face down and then walk it off like they were slapped by a baby.

The sanitization is for commercial considerations. Getting a PG13 rating maximizes number of box office ticket buyers, so no blood after stabbings, no gore, and a maximum of one swear word.

You mean, like Tom and Jerry or Coyote and Road Runner?

Yeah, except with real humans.

Where in the world is a clip of a woman "sucking off an enormous penis" not considered pornography? I'm European and I can't really believe that

I think you're missing the heavy sarcasm there

Then what is the point, that Americans aren't really prudish at all and that other people are silly for saying that certain things aren't porn? If it's sarcasm I don't really get the point it's trying to portray