The Debate Over “Clean Flicks”

There’s a new company called Clean Flicks. They bill themselves as the “leading provider” of edited Hollywood movies — and reportedly Hollywood is not totally pleased. Clean Flicks removes profanity, violence, graphic violence and sexual content.



That should leave about 2 minutes of a 2 hour Hollywood film…But we digress.



The issue came up on Joe Scarborough’s always lively MSNBC talk show, Scarborough Country. The transcript is here. Here’s how Scarborough frames the controversy:

SCARBOROUGH: You know, it says, if Hollywood won‘t clean up its act, well, they have a right to do it for them. But there are a lot of people in Hollywood who believe this is not only breaking the law; it‘s censorship, and it‘s some guy out in middle America butchering their films.

All of this promoted this response on a blog called Jesus’ General…



We do seem to be at a point in history where technology can filter out almost anything we want. What do YOU think?