Except that’s absolutely not true.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
en.wikipedia.org/…/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controver…
wiseoldowl.net/12-tv-censorship-rules-from-1950s-…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
Anyone that thinks that society has gone soft and media can’t really be free doesn’t remember what it was actually like before.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 week ago
None of those overlapped with Ren and Stimpy. All of those were for the parents of the kids watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, the sole exception being the Satanic Panic from the 80s (which involved the duplicate article you posted about D&D).
Ren and Stimpy was allowed because the people who would cry foul were too cheap for basic cable and didn’t know it existed.