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HairHeel t1_j7ld9g9 wrote

Reply to comment by windingtime in AI Seinfeld banned on Twitch over transphobic jokes by asjonesy99

I feel like there's a frequent argument that comes up on Reddit.

"You couldn't do Seinfeld today. It would get canceled!"

"No, you totally could, because the point of Seinfeld was that the characters were bad people!"

But like... here's somebody very literally doing Seinfeld today, with a joke that absolutely has "Jerry is being a bad person" as the punch line.... and it's getting cancelled pretty hard.

I think maybe we've been taking things too far.

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windingtime t1_j7lg1ru wrote

You understand that the original Seinfeld was subject to FCC regulation and approved by sponsors, aka government and corporate censorship, correct?

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HairHeel t1_j7lhsh4 wrote

Exactly. Just like Twitch and YouTube are beholden to corporate censors today.

Censors back then were more lenient. And people who say “you cant do a show like that any more” are right; unless the censors lighten up a little.

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