{"id":1872,"date":"2002-09-19T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2002-09-19T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2002-09-19T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2002-09-19T13:40:19","slug":"movie_censorshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1872","title":{"rendered":"Movie Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video rental places like Blockbuster have long been known to (rumored to?) sanitize some of the movies they carry.  But as technology gets better, companies are able to &#8216;clean up&#8217; movies in more subtle ways.  I personally find this disturbing.  It&#8217;s bad enough that networks have to cut things for time and content (how come they don&#8217;t make those versions available).  Oh, and the next step, digitally inserted product placements.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/09\/19\/movies\/19CLEA.html?ex=1033012800&#038;en=1751939d4dc7dd5e&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Hollywood Balks at High-Tech Sanitizers<\/a>. Movie studios and filmmakers have decided it is time to get a handle on companies that offer sanitized versions of Hollywood hits to sensitive or politically conservative consumers. By Rick Lyman. [<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.userland.com\/newYorkTimes\">New York Times: Movies<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video rental places like Blockbuster have long been known to (rumored to?) sanitize some of the movies they carry. But as technology gets better, companies are able to &#8216;clean up&#8217; movies in more subtle ways. I personally find this disturbing. It&#8217;s bad enough that networks have to cut things for time and content (how come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}