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Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by socalgal2 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:56PM (#44906693)
I hate the censorship. But when some groups are willing to kill if you don’t censor then I can’t blame others for not wanting to be martyrs and put their lives on the line for it
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by jrflowers on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:50PM (#44907085)
What groups are you talking about
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by more_corn on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:28PM (#44907340)
Publish a cartoon about the prophet Mohamed and some of the groups will make themselves known to you.
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by jrflowers on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:39AM (#44908695)
What does that very specific example have to do with broad censorship as a phenomenon in media? Like how often do you think TV networks and streaming services are removing depictions of Mohammed in the stuff they make or license?
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by red-iron-pine on Monday August 18, 2025 @10:15AM (#44940870)
removing "fly me to the moon" from the end of NGE has nothing to do with Islam.

the Islamic prohibition on the Prophet isn't new, is something they take seriously and always have, and is not happening at the whim of the studio execs.

Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by throwawaylaptop on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:45PM (#44907438)
Did you really not know the answer or were you asking just to force the answer?
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by Dylan16807 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:09PM (#44907571)
I can't think of any answer that makes sense in this context (widespread tv show editing).
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by dotancohen on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:28AM (#44908624)
Not TV show editing, rather a satire magazine, but a now-deleted reply mentioned that Charlie Hebdo was pressured to censor and would not. They had staff members murdered because they would not censor.
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by Dylan16807 on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:31AM (#44908647)
That is a thing that happened.

But if it's what socalgal2 was talking about, then their comment was a non-sequitur. They saw the word censorship and rambled something almost entirely unrelated to the topic at hand.

That's why it's worth asking what they're talking about.

Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by dotancohen on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:58AM (#44908774)
They were responding to a comment about piracy not self-centering extant works. I could see where the comment does sequitur, just barely. Perhaps he is pushing an agenda, perhaps he was making conversation. I can see far further OT comments all up and down this post.
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by Dylan16807 on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:10AM (#44908831)
My issue is less with taking a tangent but the way the comment is framed as if it's a justification for what services are doing. Maybe one south park episode can be half-justified that way, and basically nothing else.
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by dotancohen on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:04AM (#44910462)
I see what you're saying now. I'm not familiar with the South Park episode but I think I understand you.
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by sensanaty on Friday August 15, 2025 @04:31AM (#44909896)
There was also South Park's episodes 200 and 201 where they got a slew of death threats for depicting Mohammad. Funnily enough, Mohammad's depiction was the least offensive of all the other religious figures they showed in that episode, which was basically the point of the episodes more or less.

The funniest part of it all is that the network decided to not only remove the episode after the initial airing, it even censored Kyle's speech at the end of 201[1] about fighting back against intimidation. The censorship was done in such a way that it looked like South Park was satirizing the censorship itself too [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TMHIYDHMSE [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imj_pHXzJbc

Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by jrflowers on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:33AM (#44908662)
I genuinely don’t know what socalgal2 is referring to. If everybody instantly understood cryptic posts we wouldn’t call them cryptic
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by JodieBenitez on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:22AM (#44908871)
Not directly related to streaming services, but this happened: https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/08/13/noisy-le-s...

I can definitely see how streaming services would adapt to bigots.