I was reading on Wikipedia that Fred got arrested for having these movies in Canada I think.
Now are theses movies banned in the U.S? I know these are on the ToeTag website but these movies are probably impossible to find in the U.S.
Basically would you be arrested if a police officer saw you with these movies in your car or something?
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Oh ok. I thought if a police officer caught someone with the trilogy or any of them you'd get arrested.
shareDo we even still ban films in the US? So long as it can be shown that a film is using special effects rather than being a real snuff film (or basically any illegal activity like pedophilia), I can't picture there being any justification to police viewers. That goes against the whole "freedom of speach" thing. Sure, they can make a film harder to obtain, or even try to keep an eye on those who purchase large amounts of films focus around child abuse or whatever (much like monitoring readers who purchase large amounts of books like the Anarchist's Cookbook), but simply owning these things does not a criminal make.
shareThat's where things get tricky.
There's at least two movies I know of that are either banned here in the US, or were banned for some time. Titicut Follies (1967) as one of them, having been banned for at least 30 years for privacy reasons by the state of Massachusetts. I believe it was lifted by a Supreme Court judge who basically said privacy concerns weren't as important as the First Amendment, given how much time had passed.
If you check Wikipedia, you can see what is or was on the banned movie list for here. I'm pretty sure Freaks (1932) is still banned in some cities, but I'm not 100% sure. There's also some movies that will or can be seized by customs if it comes through. It's not listed on here anymore, but the MDPOPE mixtapes (Most Disturbed Person on Planet Earth) comes with a warning on their site saying that it needs to be packaged discreetly due to the extremely violent content to avoid getting taken.
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