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Someone wrote:I understand, but the crowded-theater metaphor is difficult to define in one country or culture by another. We can't see well what political undercurrents are involved, for example, in the possibly quite wrong U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow no-holds-barred on the sale of extremely violent video games to minors. I see this decision as a gross class error. What will be will be, in any case.

I'm not convinced multimedia depictions of violence and/or sexual acts are generally necessary for expressing people's strongly held beliefs and values, so I'm not so concerned about restrictions here. I think in this case the issue falls back to etiquette. It is generally considered impolite to have sex in public, so it seems odd to me that we broadcast multimedia depictions of sex into people's living rooms.