The Biblomaniac Army (booklovers, UNITE!) v.2

[Lady Sabine]

2. Do you believe that books should have different censorship standards than visual media? If so, how?
Yes, books are just words, and the media is rarely censored anymore,

If you don't mind my asking, what country do you live in? Every country I've been to has pretty strict censorship of visual media as compared to linguistic.

[ShadowHunteress]

2. Do you believe that books should have different censorship standards than visual media? If so, how?
Yes, books are just words, and the media is rarely censored anymore,

If you don't mind my asking, what country do you live in? Every country I've been to has pretty strict censorship of visual media as compared to linguistic.

Canada, the movies of course have the usual ratings, but other then that as long as it is not illegal (you know how I mean, like to film) It is allowed, and on TV it is the usual warning before the show etc. News is the only one with the usual strict censorship. If you compare the TV and movies and even music videos, over even the last decade it has gotten to be more and more lewd. Most books now a days can be made into movies without cutting things out (take 50 Shades of Grey for example)

[Roonil Wazlib]

So my grandmother works at an antique shop, and the other day someone came in and asked for books that were all the same color. To decorate their house. They didn't even care what the content was, just as long as they looked pretty. T.T

[Lady Sabine]

Canada, the movies of course have the usual ratings, but other then that as long as it is not illegal (you know how I mean, like to film) It is allowed, and on TV it is the usual warning before the show etc. News is the only one with the usual strict censorship. If you compare the TV and movies and even music videos, over even the last decade it has gotten to be more and more lewd. Most books now a days can be made into movies without cutting things out (take 50 Shades of Grey for example)

As an A Song of Ice and Fire fan, I would like to disagree with you. They had to take so much out of that series to make it HBO appropriate- evading child pornography laws by aging up the characters is one thing, but there are plenty of other examples where the book is far more explicit than the show. I'm pretty sure it's cut the same for American & Canadian audiences, though I'm not 100% sure.
One of my mother's favorite shows is My Name is Earl. They got the 9 pm timeslot, but certain curse words are 10 pm and later only, so there are episodes where they purposely wait until the last thirty seconds of broadcasting so they don't have to edit the script. I've never heard of a library being unable to rent books with certain language until a certain time of night.

[SilverBlade]

So my grandmother works at an antique shop, and the other day someone came in and asked for books that were all the same color. To decorate their house. They didn't even care what the content was, just as long as they looked pretty. T.T

Oh my Gosh, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. How shallow! -.- Books feed the soul and enlarge your dreams; they don't decorate your house! >.<

[cats.]

Username: cats.
Nickname (if any): -
Top Ten Favorite Books: Oh god, don't make me pick, please
Average amount of time it takes you to finish a book: 3 hours.
How many of the above symptoms you regularly experience: All of them, except the bring book to lunch one. I'm a student librarian - I sit in the library so much, I don't even need to take them out! The staff just conveniently let me hide whatever I'm reading.

[ShadowHunteress]

As an A Song of Ice and Fire fan, I would like to disagree with you. They had to take so much out of that series to make it HBO appropriate- evading child pornography laws by aging up the characters is one thing, but there are plenty of other examples where the book is far more explicit than the show. I'm pretty sure it's cut the same for American & Canadian audiences, though I'm not 100% sure.
One of my mother's favorite shows is My Name is Earl. They got the 9 pm timeslot, but certain curse words are 10 pm and later only, so there are episodes where they purposely wait until the last thirty seconds of broadcasting so they don't have to edit the script. I've never heard of a library being unable to rent books with certain language until a certain time of night.

I've never heard of that, I am fairly sure that they can swear any time, depending on the channel, but it is different everywhere I guess. And of course books can always get away with more, but some people will try to ban them, like shows, but you have to admit, more people would complain about TV then books, because comparing the amounts who do either more people see TV then read a book, hence more complainers.

So my grandmother works at an antique shop, and the other day someone came in and asked for books that were all the same color. To decorate their house. They didn't even care what the content was, just as long as they looked pretty. T.T

Oh my Gosh, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. How shallow! -.- Books feed the soul and enlarge your dreams; they don't decorate your house! >.<

Can't they do both? I think a room with books is more beautiful then one without, and the stories they hold inside make it even better.

[SilverBlade]

So my grandmother works at an antique shop, and the other day someone came in and asked for books that were all the same color. To decorate their house. They didn't even care what the content was, just as long as they looked pretty. T.T

Oh my Gosh, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. How shallow! -.- Books feed the soul and enlarge your dreams; they don't decorate your house! >.<

Can't they do both? I think a room with books is more beautiful then one without, and the stories they hold inside make it even better.

Hmmm, yes, I agree with that, absolutely! Books do make a room beautiful; what I ment was that buying books aiming only to decorate is wrong. They didn't care about the stories inside them -this is the wrong thing. Other than this, you're right! c: Books are beautiful!

[Lady Sabine]

I've never heard of that, I am fairly sure that they can swear any time, depending on the channel, but it is different everywhere I guess. And of course books can always get away with more, but some people will try to ban them, like shows, but you have to admit, more people would complain about TV then books, because comparing the amounts who do either more people see TV then read a book, hence more complainers.

The Code of Ethics of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters[4] defines the "late viewing period" as the hours from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Outside this period, the Code of Ethics prohibits programming containing sexually explicit material or coarse or offensive language.

Nope, you guys have appropriate time slots, too.
Concerning the people that get offended and complain, it's really more about percentage than gross numbers.

Oh my Gosh, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. How shallow! -.- Books feed the soul and enlarge your dreams; they don't decorate your house! >.<

They make fake matched books so you don't have to spend money on real ones to look educated and cultured.

[ShadowHunteress]

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Oh my Gosh, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. How shallow! -.- Books feed the soul and enlarge your dreams; they don't decorate your house! >.<

Can't they do both? I think a room with books is more beautiful then one without, and the stories they hold inside make it even better.

Hmmm, yes, I agree with that, absolutely! Books do make a room beautiful; what I ment was that buying books aiming only to decorate is wrong. They didn't care about the stories inside them -this is the wrong thing. Other than this, you're right! c: Books are beautiful!

I am on the fence about that... frankly I wouldn't want to read an encyclopedia or an old law books, but some look beautiful and I would love to own them and have that little piece of history.

@Sabine- Huh, welp then this movie shouldn't be on XD, but then again, background noise. And The Song of Fire and Ice, what books are those?