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NSFCL - is a better term for what BJ refers to as NSFW
The History of 'save the kids from filth' is a very recent one, which was commenced by fmr Supreme Court Justice Stevens in FCC v Pacifica.
Stevens was appointed by Gerald Ford who attempted to have William O Douglas impeached from the US Supreme Court because of Douglas' unflinching position on the 1st Amendment and a Swedish film "I Am Curious Yellow" which the GOP attempted to ban as it dealt with the Christian Democrat movement in Sweden. Ford became US President after it was revealed that Richard Nixon was carrying on a number of illegal activities through the Office of the Presidency. Aside from hiring people to break into Democratic Party Headquarters, one of these actions regarded the secret bombing of Cambodia: which was Nixon's extension of a covert policy of warmaking against North Viet Nam, commenced by President Truman, as revealed by Daniel Ellsberg leaking the top secret "Pentagon Papers" to the NY Times.
Nixon who had racial covenants on his California home when he moved to DC to be Eisenhower's Vice President, forbade Negros or Jews from buying his home. As US President Nixon had also appointed censors to the FCC and two of the most extremist Judges in the history of the Court, Burger and Rehnquist whom - amongst other things - voted to allow Nixon to prevent the NY Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers; but, at that time, were still outvoted.
None the less, burger/rehnquist did more to dismantle the Union than anyone else in the history of the USA. Nixon had realized that the KKK faction of the Democratic Party (it's heart soul and flesh) was now up for grabs after LBJ had signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law and his method for securing them as loyal GOP supporters was known as his 'southern strategy'. Burger and Rehnquist's job was to use the Court to dismantle the Union 'return power to the States' restore "traditional family values" - e.g., criminalize abortion, Homosexuality, allow school prayer and State sponsered censorship.
The obstacles they faced were decisions upholding these various rights they opposed especially rights protected under the 14th Amendment, which incorporates protections of the 1st Amendment against actions by the States. So in order to do this, they had to Amend the US Constitution from the bench. In terms of censorship this was facilitated by Justice Stevens writing the 5 to 4 decision in FCC v Pacifica which created a power for the FCC to censor all television and radio broadcasts outside the hours of 10pm to 6am to protect children from "filthy words". And thus Children became the new pretence for Conservatives to effectuate and impose censorship. Up until the time Nixon and Ford appointed 5 members to the Court, the 1st Amendment was still a highly regarded National right, after Miller v California written by Burger, censorship became a States Right under another Constitutional Amendment by the Court, referred to as "community standards".
Now when I was growing up Child Labor was still prevalent and immensely popular. The Press used children to deliver their newspapers, collect subscription fees, work as theater ushers, deliver groceries, &c. I worked sweeping floors when I was 12. At that particular time the Conservatives were saying child labor promoted character, discipline, obedience. Heil Hitler. By the time I was 21 the Conseravtives were lamenting O these poor children, puking pea soup, smoke pouring out of their ears, their heads spinning around because of these "filthy words" all over the radio. God is a failure, how will these children ever grow up and vote Republican, something must be done otherwise Satan and insects will take over the world, we need more petroleum distillates, funny greasy haircuts and men in baggy suits to black top the earth and build more churches.
So by this time maybe you're beginning to see the irony of how we got to NOT SAFE FOR CHILDREN to NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
When Stevens amended the US Constitution to allow the FCC to censor radio broadcasts it wasn't to protect (as Brennan noted in his dissent) "weak minded adults". Previous to the Pacifica case, I was allowed to listen to the radio when I was 12 years old, sweeping floors; the power to censor these broadcasts was created by the Court, purportedly, to prevent children from becoming possessed by Satan and disabled from growing up and voting for the GOP or their Christian Democrat brethren.
So by the time Nixon resigned and Ford stumbled around as President the KKK faction of the Democratic Party decided to take control of government, actually for the first time since the Civil War and hired Christian Democrat Jimmy Carter whose position on the 1st Amendment was voluntary self censorship for the sake of Christian decency
So now at the present time we have a situation of ignorance. The government is incapable of ordering any social networking site to in any manner censor their content as this would violate the sites 14th, 1st and 5th Amendment Rights under the US Const. Either the site itself is censoring us because it has some affinity with Jimmy Carter and the Christian Democrats or some secret person has control over these sites and is ordering them to censor content. Whatever the case is, NSFW makes absolutely no sense whatever. If I had a business and felt that the internet was depriving me of the labor commodity I've purchased then I would ban the internet from the premises which is what many businesses have done. So as far as I can tell the whole thing is bogus and as no explanation is provided I have no basis to believe otherwise. If you have any clue, post it as a comment; lack of comments indicating none exists.
In conclusion, we are allowed to post whatever we want as long as we mark it NSFW, maybe a better acronym would be NSFWMP.
