Netflix Censorship (bad news about "Spartacus")

[JTEM]

I've checked online, and again & again it is claimed
that Netflix does NOT censor it's Watch Instantly
choices, but that's absolute bullshit.

Here's complaints about a censored "L Word":
http://community.netflix.com/forum/topics/the-l-word-censored

"The Tudors"
http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2007/04/netflix_censori.html

And, from my own experience, "Caligula"(*) is hacked to bits.

It is in view of Netflix's DISGUSTING censorship that I must
(extremely) cautiously announce that Starz's new series,
"Spartacus: Blood and Sand" is available to Watch Instantly
on Netflix.

Now I have no way of actually knowing if there's the slightest
censorship of the episodes, having nothing to compare them
to. In Netflix's defense, there were an awful lot of Bodacious
Ta-Tas on display, not to mention a lot of F-bombs bombs
getting dropped... not to mention the C-word. No danglely
boy parts to speak of, though.

....so maybe it isn't censored, maybe all the promised
"Full Frontal" is the chicks.

(*) We actually owned a copy of "Caligula," way back when,
on VHS, when it's reputation was still strong enough to inflame
a person's curiosity by it's mere mention. I know, because it
got mentioned many, many, many, times -- far too many -- and
what followed were usually pleas by the curious for me to toss
the damn thing in the VCR and let them watch. This occurred to
such an extant that one evening I brought it over to the home of
some curious friends, and stood in the next room, just outside
the doorway where I couldn't see the TV, describing each and
every scene.... and sometimes what was going to happen next.

You get a WHOLE DIFFERENT perspective once the shock
wears off, let me tell you. For one thing, though it is popularly
believed that Caligula was quite insane, and most people who
view the film walk away believing he was insane, the movie
is very deceptive. The movie's Caligula is not crazy. The viewer
is mislead into believing he is because of his shocking acts,
but he is not insane.

"Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely."

That was the message of the film.

[tmthr...@gmail.com]

I discovered that one of my favorite television shows on Netflix was censored... I was irritated. I complained to Netflix and they told me that they have no control over that as they stream directly from the production companies. They present what they are given. So I wrote a very long letter to BBC complaining about the fact that they were censoring programs, and recently I was rewatching the show, and it was no longer censored. Maybe writing an email to the production company would fix the issue you are having with the shows you are watching. (You can generally find the appropriate email on the website. For instance if it's Showtime, log on to the site, click on contact us and find the appropriate email. It may be a general email address, or they might have it broken down by department.) It's worth a shot!

[JTEM]

tmthrals...@gmail.com wrote:
> I discovered that one of my favorite television shows on Netflix was censored... I was irritated. I complained to Netflix and they told me that they have no control over that as they stream directly from the production companies. They present what they are given. So I wrote a very long letter to BBC complaining about the fact that they were censoring programs, and recently I was rewatching the show, and it was no longer censored. Maybe writing an email to the production company would fix the issue you are having with the shows you are watching. (You can generally find the appropriate email on the website. For instance if it's Showtime, log on to the site, click on contact us and find the appropriate email. It may be a general email address, or they might have it broken down by department.) It's worth a shot!

The BBC is a comical view of the U.S. The
have no idea what the U.S. is actually like,
instead fixating on some insane caricature
of America...

Best example: BBC America broadcast a documentary
on a transgendered young man, and in one
scene the young man is standing shirtless to
show that his hormone treatments HAD NOT
WORKED, that there was no physical changes,
that his chest remained fully male.

The BBC pixelated it.

They pixelated the young guy's chest.

Seriously, they have no clue.

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[Lee Rudolph]

JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> writes:

...

>The BBC is a comical view of the U.S. The
>have no idea what the U.S. is actually like,
>instead fixating on some insane caricature
>of America...
>
>Best example: BBC America broadcast a documentary
>on a transgendered young man, and in one
>scene the young man is standing shirtless to
>show that his hormone treatments HAD NOT
>WORKED, that there was no physical changes,
>that his chest remained fully male.
>
>The BBC pixelated it.
>
>They pixelated the young guy's chest.
>
>Seriously, they have no clue.

That was no pixelation. That was ROGUE HORMONES
GONE TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY BAD.

Lee Rudolph

[JTEM]

Lee Rudolph <lrudo...@panix.com> wrote:

> That was no pixelation.  That was ROGUE HORMONES
> GONE TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY BAD.

That was a song by Bad Company, wasn't it?

"Good Hormones Gone Bad."

Yes. Now I remember; it was on the Transgendered
Shooter album.

Good stuff. A real catchy tune.



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