american liberty and american freedom. because we could never do anything to prevent them from flexing their muscle slippery slope we re starting to go down and this is really the first sort of big launch by another government on not american corporation but american interests in shutting down this movie. so if it s at that level, what if anything should our government be doing? first, let me tell you what sony and the motion picture industry should have done. when rus ki was threatened with death, all the publishers got together and said we re going to jointly confront this censorship and jointly publish the book. what should have happened is all the studios in hollywood said we re going to give up our profits, jointly distribute this film on the internet so hundreds of millions of people all over the world can see what north korea doesn t want you to see. that would have really stuck it to the north koreans and would have told them you cannot fool around with american liberty.
american liberty and american freedom. because we could never do anything to prevent them from flexing their muscle slippery slope we re starting to go down and this is really the first sort of big launch by another government on not american corporation but american interests in shutting down this movie. so if it s at that level, what if anything should our government be doing? first, let me tell you what sony and the motion picture industry should have done. when rus ki was threatened with death, all the publishers got together and said we re going to jointly confront this censorship and jointly publish the book. what should have happened is all the studios in hollywood said we re going to give up our profits, jointly distribute this film on the internet so hundreds of millions of people all over the world can see what north korea doesn t want you to see. that would have really stuck it to the north koreans and would have told them you cannot fool around with american liberty.
an r rating, but gun violence more likely to be rated pg-13. a top grossing r-rated film today will have less gun violence than a top earning pg-13 movie today. reporter: the motion picture industry declined comment. and others suggested that hollywood is feeding a culture of violence. gun violence may have increased but in real life violent crime is at an all-time low. david wright, abc news, hollywood. according to the study, the violence in pg-13 is up but the same is not true for r, pg or g rated. so no connection with the bloodshed in the cartoons, which is reassuring. thank goodness for that. the sex and swearing, i can understand why that would be the r-rated category. why not the violence? why is violence able to slip