Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "" video.

@gstar1084 I'm fairly sure that in Germany it is a law though. You are anonymous until proven guilty.
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David Baddiel and Rob Newman called their double act The Mary Whitehouse Experience just to piss her off, she wasn't just a pain in the arse in the 60's and 70's, she was still trying to ruin everyone else's life throughout the 80's and early 90's. She thought video recorders were the worst invention in history because they allowed children to watch "video nasties" (rented horror movies) at any time of the day. If she hadn't retired in the late 90's she likely would have turned on video games and tried to get Rockstar Games shut down.
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I know the name was changed in the UK because over here ninjas were deemed unsuitable to be heroes for children, seeing as ninjas are basically assassins, also nunchucks were cut because they are the one weapon in the show most closely identified with assassins. So they changed the name to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and cut some scenes. German TV might have had the same problem as we did but it's far more likely that your TV network just bought the UK version of the show instead of the US version.
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@markweaver1012 Actually when you wrongfully slander someone I think you will find that part of the compensation you mentioned is that you are forced to recant what you said, which is fundamentally censorship. You have to retract what you said and apologise proving that your speech before and after said event may have been free, but your slander most certainly was not free. If it was free then you would not eventually end up in jail for defamation should you keep doing it. If you can be penalised for it in any way, shape or form then "it" is not free.
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We changed to suit American tourists, sadly. Unlike other tourists when American tourists see something they don't approve of they have a tendency to complain and try to get it changed for when they come back.
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Yeah, it has always surprised me that Americans (mainly right-wing Americans) put more faith in companies than they do in government when the sole role of government is to look after people while the sole role of a company is to make profit.. often at the expense of people.
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@supernova19805 It's just a saying.
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@denzzlinga In the US hard core porn is X-rated, not 18-rated, movies and games go out of their way to avoid an X or an R because those two ratings could kill your sales. GTA:SA removed the sex scene to avoid an X-rating.
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In the 90's people didn't sue school boards because "my child learned X at your school". Just like in every other part of society schools districts are trying to protect themselves from litigation. Suing someone for the slightest indiscretion is just another gift from America to the world.
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@classicallpvault Everyone was a nonce 1400 years ago... You are making the mistake of putting modern sensibilities on a 7th century person, if you are capable of such an elementary mistake as that then what else do you get wrong? 🙄 The vast majority of your ancestors were nonces to use your childish vernacular. So were mine. Now if you are as predictable as people like you often are you will now accuse me of condoning child rape. sigh
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Sadly, even if said companies were not US-based the censorship would likely still be a thing because rather than making several different versions of something it is always much easier to just make one version of it that satisfies all western jurisdictions - so things like Instagram would likely be just as prudish today had it been created in Switzerland. You see this with websites in the Muslim world, moderate nations like Jordan and Tunisia where women can dress as they please use many of the social media sites that are popular in hard line sharia countries like Iran and Pakistan so they have to be careful what they post online.
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Therein lies the irony: usually they haven't even seen/read the thing they are trying to ban.
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@user-mg4cc9sy7p Depends how you define freedom, by my definition I'm much more free in Europe than I would be in America, you guys don't even have the right to roam so if you want to see nature you have to do it in designated national parks like herded animals, whereas I can go anywhere in my country on any piece of land with the only exception being military bases. As someone who loves to walk I'd be lost without that right.
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The US versions of Maxim, Loaded, FHM, etc, must have been pretty tame.
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@wikingagresor Except it's the complete opposite. The US is the country in danger of tyranny because you can say any misinformation you like on TV and you can say it to tens of millions of people - that is how you get a tyrant in to power. The EU's take on freedom of speech keeps misinformation, conspiracy theories and Qanon-esque stupidity at bay while in the US you can go on live TV and tell 340 million people complete lies to try and swing their vote in your direction. Hell, you only have to look at 2016 when the US literally did elect a tyrant who would ask supporters at his rallies if he should try to abolish term limits so he could be the president forever. You tried at least. I have no idea what your thinking was, but you tried.
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