We aren't big on banning things down here. If you can name something you want to ban, someone will find a way to claim it's how they express themselves and you're trampling their free speech. If you want something banned it has to either be killing or diddling children, or making the MPAA lose money even if it's their own fault for not keeping up with the times.
Hell, even the MPAA couldn't ban people from making songs about the source code used to decrypt CSS on DVDs.
Because people didn't use it back then. People didnt start flying it until the civil rights movement as a way of putting black people in their place. It was never hailed as a heritage symbol or even actually the flag of the confederacy. Just like all the monuments to Confederate soldiers and generals, this was done in the mid 20th century to scare black people. Its just racism and always has been. It wasnt banned then because, surprise surprise, the people in charge are fucking racist.
Jae_Hyun on June 10th, 2020 at 04:00 UTC »
Initially, probably didn't seem like it would be necessary, later on, Lost cause myth mostly.
browner87 on June 10th, 2020 at 06:03 UTC »
We aren't big on banning things down here. If you can name something you want to ban, someone will find a way to claim it's how they express themselves and you're trampling their free speech. If you want something banned it has to either be killing or diddling children, or making the MPAA lose money even if it's their own fault for not keeping up with the times.
Hell, even the MPAA couldn't ban people from making songs about the source code used to decrypt CSS on DVDs.
blackny97gsx on June 10th, 2020 at 07:21 UTC »
Because people didn't use it back then. People didnt start flying it until the civil rights movement as a way of putting black people in their place. It was never hailed as a heritage symbol or even actually the flag of the confederacy. Just like all the monuments to Confederate soldiers and generals, this was done in the mid 20th century to scare black people. Its just racism and always has been. It wasnt banned then because, surprise surprise, the people in charge are fucking racist.