It's worth noting that American censorship in, say, 1960, was at close to the same level.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_United_...
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See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_United_...
I personally tire of this pattern:
1. Article submitted to an international forum about X country doing Y bad thing
2. "Well the USA is just as bad, they also did/doing/will do Y bad thing"
Well yes, that is true, but people are voting up the submission because they found that X-doing-Y-today was interesting and don't care to rehash the history of the US every single time. YES the US has plenty of blemishes in its history. Yes it has censored, warred, raped, extorted, and imprisoned. Yes the US persists in directly doing some of those today, and through malice or ineptitude it fails to prevent others.
But the regularity with which this pattern repeats feels so much like state sponsored astroturfing I'm just tired of it.
American site with mostly American-lens topics. Maybe 50% American readers? Rest International.