A reminder to stop hatewatching things
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The dichotomy of the censor, whether it's a Vatican censor looking for dirty books in the 1500s, or the Hayes Code guys or modern ratings dudes and the woke police, "How do you know there's a problem with it if you've never seen it?", which is pretty much the argument that can be used against something that is truly banned, like Song of the South.
The removal of the Hays Code allowed a torrent of subversive films fueling transvaluation which has brought us Cuties, and it will only get worse unless something similar is restored.
What was so much better about Hays vs. the MPAA? I remember hearing they had a lot of creative ways to get around it.
Hays had much more rigid standards explicitly laid out, such as an outright ban on all sexual content, and didn't allow much leniency even for content intended for adults. The MPAA rating system is rather arbitrary and allows almost anything for adult content, which inevitably enables the line of what is adult only material to move towards kids. While the Hays code would almost certainly have been subverted as well, it would have taken much longer and been more difficult.