HoldingOurOwn wrote:Again, the MPAA doesn't tell people to change their films, or blacklist artists.
The MPAA is made up of representatives from major film studios (Disney, Sony, etc...) so when you say:
HoldingOurOwn wrote:Now, Hollywood does a good job blacklisting their own independently without the MPAA's help.
...you're describing the MPAA. It's a Hollywood organization using Hollywood money to promote Hollywood films and values. They have financial ties to major theater chains and they use those ties to keep the MPAA rating system in effect. They dictate the standards for ratings, which, because of the monetary ties to the distribution system, ultimately affect where and to what audiences the films are shown. That the whole thing is a result of the free market doesn't keep this from being a form of censorship.
For posterity my use of the word blacklist in:
I wrote:If someone is being told they have to change the content of their film or be blacklisted from major cinemas in the US, that's censorship.
was in reference to the film, not the artist, and confusion in that regard is my fault for not being more precise.