Ads will be seen by all audiences, including children. If the advertising is not suitable for all audiences it will not be approved by the advertising administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Oh, wait, no, they approved that <\/em>poster. I guess the image of a woman bound and hanging upsidedown, apparently about to be tortured for the audience’s entertainment, is suitable for “all audiences, including children.”<\/p>\n Here’s<\/em> the poster they rejected:<\/p>\n Oh, my mistake, they found that one suitable for all audiences too.<\/p>\n Okay, here’s the poster they really rejected:<\/p>\n That time I didn’t even fool you, did I? You’re right, the MPAA found that image acceptable for all audiences. There’s no way any kid would be traumatized by something as mundane as a man’s severed head in a grocery scale.<\/p>\n So what was the image that the MPAA rejected as not “suitable” for “all audiences, including children”? Here it is:<\/p>\n This poster for “Taxi To The Dark Side<\/a>,” a documentary about the U.S. government’s use of torture, is what the MPAA is protecting our children’s tender eyes from.<\/p>\n Because of the hood.<\/p>\n But — the MPAA assures us — their standard is reasonable, because if that “Saw IV” poster had had a hood over the severed head, they would have rejected it too.<\/p>\n Gosh, no double standard there.<\/p>\n Oh, well, at least this is some sort of aberration. It’s not like the MPAA has a history of right-wing double-standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n (Hat tips to ldragoon<\/a> and Pop Stalin Designs<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rejects movie posters that aren’t suitable for children to view. As the MPAA recently explained, as they rejected a movie’s poster: Ads will be seen by all audiences, including children. If the advertising … Continue reading 
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