Aussies, sucks to be you

Here in the Netherlands the freedom of speech is getting pretty far. They already remove the ban of blashemphy. Some people will agree that it is important that people in public to express their views and also criticism of a religion can provide. Other will say who uses that freedom to a group of people, as believers, for their deliberately insulting beliefs, goes too far.

 

Because you're apparently tuned into the wrong channels.

Also, because full revoking of censorship doesn't happen overnight. That doesn't mean that the USA still isn't pretty lax.

 

The worse swearing one can get away with on prime time TV is asshole. Still can't say fuck, shit, motherfucker, or refer to people as various words for genitalia (too many to type out).

As for the nudity, American censors (and it would seem American people as a whole) few sex as sinful and nudity as something to be avoided. I don't understand it myself.

I misinterpreted your post. It seemed like you were saying if we choose strict censorship we'll have a booming economy, but because we have lax censorship our economy sucks.

 

Canada has lower censorship standards* than the United States and is less damaged by the economic downturn, so I don't think there is a correlation.

Really, if you want a place with lax censorship and an economy at least equivalent to Australia's, Canada is a good place. After all, we're about to face a worker shortage, not a job one.

*See: Trailer Park Boys. There was a movement to bring the show to the United States, but most of the show was too racy for American television. Instead, they made Reno 911.

Also see: Quebec. Man, French television goes so far beyond what English-speaking Westerners consider decent that it's amazing. It's amusing watching a talkshow where a bunch of right-wing individuals complain about the audacity of Miley Cyrus showing her naked back in a photoshoot, or House throwing out an innuendo, and then switching to the French channel and immediately seeing full-on sex.

 

...Holy fuck. I wanna move to Canada even more now.