Kind of awesome that Apple hasn't pulled an app that is literally used for committing violence against innocent people but anything pornographic gets banned pretty fast.
It's uniquely American. Most of Western Civilization is not like this. We're like this because this country was full of puritans and other religious people at the founding.
But it very much is, at least in a "Western world" context which usually also includes Europe, were attitudes to violence and nudity can be completely reversed to the US.
For one of the most prominent examples, just compare the US to Germany: For decades Germany censored very mundane video games, like Counter Strike or Doom, for their depiction of violence.
In games like Command&Conquer, Half-Life and others, whole enemy units and models were replaced to appease the German rating boards. The original DOS Doom game was only "unbanned" in 2011.
A lot of violent movies and TV shows are only aired in censored versions in Germany, yet on these very same channels, during late night, there regularly is completely barrier free soft-core erotica content that for many Americans would qualify as "porn".
Another example is the naturism/nudist culture that very much has a old and somewhat popular tradition in Germany as FKK. It's also a thing in the US, yes, but it never was on a comparable mainstream level like in Germany.
These differences exist because there simply isn't this one unified "Western culture" that some people stipulate to be a thing.
Op was about religious ideas from the 1600s that were far from uniquely American. They’re an ingredient! But let’s not get carried away with the 7th grade social studies stuff.
Australia and the UK have porn filters on their internet. Australia also has weirdly strict child porn law that can turn an innocent recording from broadcast TV into illegal porn by simple editing. Simpsons porn is illegal too, despite the characters having the wrong number of fingers to be human.
What kind of editing would cause that? I'll be shocked if this is true.
Im curious if thats some interpretation of a law or someone have been convicted because of things like that?
