[Canada Post's new] policies, which came into effect just over a year ago, now mandate that all “sexually suggestive” admail—even commercial mail that is explicitly addressed to the recipient—be clearly labelled as adult material, thwarting all attempts at discretion. This includes all images “that are suggestive of sexual activity,” as well as text that “describes sexual acts in a way that is more than purely technical.”
Technically, as per the letter of the law, that would include romance novels. That would include fashion magazines if they contained some of the more provocative perfume ads. If "images" includes video, that would include DVD box sets of most (if not all) the Golden Globe nominees for Best Drama. None of which is porn. It is intended for adults, yes, but you can buy romance novels in a grocery store, and see images suggestive of sexual activity by channel-surfing after 10 pm.
What were they thinking when they wrote this definition?
4 comments:
This is the essential problem with any sort of censorship, you can never define it well enough for it to make any practical sense.
I think people who can't articulate an easily grokable concept shouldn't be allowed to write rules.
It's definitely half the problem with the censorship. The other half of the problem is censorship itself.
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
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