<p>"If a 12 year old wants to go to an R rated movie, they will sell him a ticket."</p>
<p>i guess if you know where to go... but around here they really won't. i didnt start seeing R rated movies in the theatre without my parents until i was like 14 or so and we knew which theatres had young guys in the ticket booths who'd sell them to us haha</p>
<p>All the ones here are pretty serious about the rule, though it is easy to but a PG-13 ticket and waltz into an R movie.</p>
<p>It's not a rule, it's a guideline. I used to work at a movie theatre</p>
<p>They are serious where I live. I remember some kids who bought some tickets for an R rated movie and all were turned away after they had bought the tickets...because they were underage. So really, what was the point...wonder if they got a refund.</p>
<p>Different theatres have different policies regarding R-rated movies. Selling a ticket to an R-rated movie to a minor is not illegal.</p>
<p>Well, I'm about to go into eight grade, and my mom honestly doesn't care. She lets me read and see everything. In fact, we're planning to see Clerks II together...that might be weird.</p>
<p>But if some parents want to prevent their kids from seeing or reading someting, then that's their right. I just don't see the point of it. The kid will probably pick it up at school. </p>
<p>Of course, I'm talking about kids my age.</p>
<p>True...but so strange to sell the kids a ticket and not let them see the movie. I was more surprised the "rules" were enforced.</p>
<p>My mom is pretty lax about most things...when she went to go see those r rated films...she took me right along with her (when I was a little kid).</p>
<p>censorship isn't that big a deal. I only disaprove of it if a movie is too heavily censored and hinders my understanding of the movie (in other words, if too much is cut out of the movie that you can't understand the story)
Like when that movie" Bruice Almighty" was released here, they had a huge sign on the poster that said: Please be informed that this movie is heavily censored ('cause it was talking about god and all) anyway, the movie left the thratre a few days later because no one wanted to seea 1 hour movie.</p>
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ROFL. This reminds me of inquisition, I hope they wont try to burn people who read HP on a stake yet.
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<p>I don't think anyone could read Harry Potter while on a stake. Maybe you should have rephrased the sentence: I hope that readers of HP will not be burned on a stake.
--just thought that I'd point that out.</p>
<p>It's understandable in schools, since many students try to slack off. My school's pretty laid back on that, though (or maybe didn't know how to restrict it); pretty much the only sites we can't see are Myspace and the likes.</p>
<p>As for movies and books, what's the use in censoring those? People who want to see or read them will, and the rest won't. I don't mind them rating them, since some people are very strict about what they allow themselves and their children to see, but modern people don't care what they see. I'm not sure who it was that said it (it was ont the first page, and I don't to go back) but they said it the best,"Kids have to wait 'till they're 18 to see sex, but they can watch killing at 13?" or any age, really. </p>
<p>Something I haven't seen yet, are the mention of video games. Parents are even more strict about those. Even Mario, the grandad of video games died. Nobody was saying he was responsible for violence (though I do see a big difference between that and the Grand Theft Auto). </p>
<p>The point is, kids aren't stupid. They won't (in most cases) read Harry Potter and jump off a roof, play Halo and kill someone, or watch Bruce Almighty and convert (or believe God is black).</p>
<p>i'm 16 and at my local movie theater, my mom tried to buy me a ticket for an R movie, but they would only let her do it if she watched it with me. she didn't want to watch it with me, so I couldn't go see it, even though she AUTHORIZED it. so dumb!</p>
<p>I live in the Bible Belt (Iowa), but our school's pretty liberal. We don't censor anything except websites- xanga, myspace, facebook, blogspot, youtube, etc...</p>
<p>As for censorship in general, I don't think anything should be censored for witchcraft, cults, or ideas in general. People should be exposed to all ideas and come to their own conclusions about them. Like DeafeningHorn says:
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The point is, kids aren't stupid. They won't (in most cases) read Harry Potter and jump off a roof, play Halo and kill someone, or watch Bruce Almighty and convert (or believe God is black).
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My school overdoes the website censoring. </p>
<p>We are allowed to use the research sites that they give us like Gale, Galileo, and World Book, and even then, we have to have a note from a teacher</p>
<p>We arent allowed to go to any other site that isnt on the list, like google, unless we have a written explanation from a teacher of the assignment and what we're looking up</p>
<p>Our librarians are very strict and unnecessarily mean
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<p>Damn Cobb County education system. I'm glad my librarians didn't give a rat's ass if we went to Google.</p>
<p>Wow, I can't believe the things people on here say are censored where they live: Google, Bruce Almighty?! That's INSANE. </p>
<p>I do not think R rated movie tickets should be sold to people under 16 or 17, unless their parents authorize it. There are some REALLY raunchy things in R rated movies, and I wasn't allowed to see them free reign until my 17th birthday. Of course, if I wanted to see something specific before that, I would ask my parents and depending on the movie they would let me see it. Like, when Thirteen came out, I was definitely allowed to see it. But if I had been 14 when 40 Year Old Virgin came out...there is NO WAY I would have been allowed to see it. I don't get parents who let their kids be exposed to porn and sex and sick language when they are not mature enough to understand it. </p>
<p>Simply letting young teens see it is giving them the impression that sex, language, etc is not a big deal. Which is why even when I snuck off to my friends houses to watch Sex and the City at 14 and 15, I still had that idea in the back of my head: "Mom doesn't approve of this, Mom would be disappointed if she saw me watching this..." I love Sex and the City, but because of my mom's early disapproval of the show and her explaining the reasons she wouldn't let me watch it, I would never engage in the type of extremely promiscuous "behavior" exhibited on the show. I can enjoy the show now without being influenced by it. </p>
<p>The whole key is open communication between parents and kids about WHY certain things are not allowed. If the child understands the reasons, they will be less likely to become influenced by it. If the parents, schools, etc just ban it without discussion though, rebellion will ensue.</p>
<p>^ okay, but so,sometimes the parents disapprove of things that are perfectly reasonable. Like when I first started watching "friends" they didn't want me to becasue it was maily about sex, but after a few months they loosened up.</p>
<p>How old were you when your parents wouldn't let you watch Friends?</p>
<p>I was completely obsessed with Friends in 7th and 8th grade, but I definitely remember times in 4th, 5th, and 6th when my mom would make me turn it off because they were talking about sex or something. I don't really see anything wrong with that. Nine year olds don't know what is going on.</p>
<p>I think that I was 9 years old. Sometimes I didn't really understand the jokes because I didn't know much about sex at the time. They started to let me watch a complete episode after my 10th birthday (but they would still change the channel if the jokes became too obvious that even I could understand them)</p>
<p>Even if what parents do seem unreasonable sometimes, they have a right to (so long as they're not like hurting their children...) because it is their household.</p>
<p>Would you rather let the government control censhorship? Think about it. *ahem. Yahoo/Google in China.</p>
<p>ther government already controls censorship here. They censore kisses and swearwords on TV (and completely get rid of make out scenes in the thratre.</p>
<p>wow that sucks. </p>
<p>haha my parents are split on this. i used to like watching baywatch for some reason (idk.. it was about lifeguards and the beach... i'm a swimmer... lol) but my father didn't like me watching it. on the other hand you have my mom who bought titanic for me to watch even when she knew about the scene with kate winslet and that other sex scene in the car, and she used to watch beverly hills 90210 with me when i was like 8 lol which had a some bad stuff</p>
<p>At my school - I'm not joking - they used to censor any website with the word "nuclear" on it. Doing chem research was a *****...anyway, I think that censorship (especially at the teenage level, with violent video games and whatnot) overestimates human malleability to the point of condescension. I'm so glad my parents don't care; I wouldn't be able to take it. Extremely small children are a different story, but once you hit twelve or thirteen you know how to function well enough to control the content you absorb and your reaction to it. </p>
<p>Stuck-on-1700: that's so interesting...what's the public reaction to it? Do they do anything with the internet, or is that a more open environment?</p>