I saw an interesting documentary last night called This Film Is Not Yet Rated. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/
It's about the MPAA, the association that rates movies (i.e. PG-13, R, NC-17). The documentary's point is that the MPAA is the only organization in the U.S. that actually censors creative work and at the same time does not reveal the identities of the members who actually rate the movies. The director does some investigating and "outs" all of the ratings members and the appeals members. In doing so, he discovers that there are 2 members of the clergy (episcopalian and catholic) on the appeals board who have a vote.
He also points out the already-well-known fact that you can show 150 people getting killed in a movie and get a PG-13 rating if you don't show blood, but if you show a nipple or a sex scene, it's R or NC-17.
Overall, it's a good discussion on movies, censorship and the ratings agency.
On a related note, this editorial about online free speech was in the NY Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/opinion/21thu3.html?hp
It's worth a read if you like the freedom of the Internet.
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It's also happening in games. It's just very frustrating to watch the ignorance of certain people. If you watch this video, these people talking against the video game, have never even played or watched the game, so how are they a good authority to say that something should be censored, or even more drastically, not made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzF173GqTU
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