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As a Flemish/Belgian museum try to post some historical Flemish Baroque paintings or statues on Facebook or a Google platform... For our clients that is a real problem.

The irony is that you will a lot of those "explicit content" hanging or being displayed in Catholic Churches all over Europe so it has nothing to do with religion but only extreme (American) puritanism.

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I always wondered how it is possible to be a nation of innovation and still be so idiotically puritanical. Clearly a smart person cannot support this step back into the dark ages of witch hunt.

Really? I know engineers of all stripes who hold fundamentalist religious views.

I know an engineer doing well at Amazon for 7 years now, who pays a 3rd party streaming service that sensors violence and sexuality from movies for him.

Musings on it here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo

Strongly disagree; intelligence does not prevent illogical behavior at all.

The Holy See should make an app containing every nude Michelangelo ever painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I'd love to see the headline, "Vatican banned from the Play Store."

The Holy See famously had pants painted over many of Michelangelo's nudes.

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