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Originally Posted by Nergal
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I use now a very harsh German word for what this partly leads to in my opinion: 'Gleichschaltung'. Not in the special historical sense it is sometimes meant, but a in a meaning of narrowing the possibilities of creativity and how creative output of the one may be consumed by the other.
And I think this fits for everything: movies, books, pictures, music - art in general.
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I also agree with you completely on this point - censorship definitely restricts the creativity of artists, and not just by blocking works outright, but, worse still, by scaring artists away from even trying to address controversial issues (which are, usually, the most important ones of all).