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It is kinda weird to see war footage of people burning alive, dismembered corpses, children being bombed. But one little nipple... I guess US TV is the same.

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I've noticed social media using more aggressive censorship (not exactly censorship; more like requiring you to be logged in) on war gore than sexually explicit images.

You're overstating it, lots of violent content is banned on every single popular platform, including hosting services.

I have to activate a complicated account level override to see nipples on the Reddit app. I can see gore in 2 clicks.

James Foley, Christchurch, etc. There's a long list of stuff that is almost universally censored, it's not a matter of setting account flags. Incidentally, Reddit is one of the most permissive hosts in terms of content, allowing stuff that even Imgur doesn't.

I did not seen children being bombed. I have heard about that happening and seen video where it took place, but after the fact and fairly sanitized.

The brutality of War is not nearly shown as much on TV as your comment implies, at least not in TV I was watching.

In Europe, sex is good and violence is bad. In the US, it's the other way around.

(stolen from someone on /. years ago)

Real violence is getting harder to find as well. Everything that isn't advertiser friendly is purged from mainstream channels. And it seems like the definition of "advertiser friendly" gets more and more stringent every day.

What are you talking about, more than half of the internet bandwidth being used in the world as I type this is transmitting pictures of nipples.

A 2014 Google study reckoned 4% of the Internet is porn.

https://www.statista.com/chart/16959/share-of-the-internet-t...

4% of websites, according to that article. I didn't see any graphs on bandwidth. I doubt that half of all traffic is porn, but 10% wouldn't surprise me at all.

Even this comment contains nipples.

( o ) ( o )

All I see is eyes

  (.)(.)

Eww, take your regular expression elsewhere.

In fairness, American TV also does not (frequently) show (real) gore as is often the case in other countries.

I always assumed it was because of Christianity making sex taboo above almost all else.

Ah, so that's why Catholics have so few children. /s

It's easier to be chaste than it is to be holy, so people go for chasteness and pretend it's holiness. Completely misunderstanding the gospels in three process.

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