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[โ€“] sexy_peach@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

No! Not at all.

[โ€“] foxglove@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Why is this even a question. Of course not.

[โ€“] UnreliantGiant@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Yes, it leads to a lot of good art criticizing censorship

[โ€“] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Sometimes, like when S&P tells you to tone it down, you have to be more clever about the humor. Most of the time, however, it's not.

[โ€“] marmulak@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes it can happen. Two cases I know of are Polish films during the communist era and Iranian films after the Islamic revolution. Because censorship restricted some popular themes it caused filmmakers to come up with something more creative to both get past censors and still be interesting/entertaining.

[โ€“] guojing@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You mean Iran had more censorship after the end of the dictatorship? That seems unlikely.

[โ€“] marmulak@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Different kind of maybe