Obscenity is weird moving target that you only know you are guilty of after you’ve been convicted.
Many smaller companies skirt the edges of extreme and obscene while others jump right over the edge into the unknown legal abyss.
Being a large US based company with hundreds of employees in the states we are forced to be somewhat conservative when it comes to content.
You’ll hear me mention the rule of thumb from time to time.
During the filming of insertion coming close to fisting the general rule to avoid legal complications in the US is the thumb must be visible.
There are many other content guidelines that we follow as well. Providers who work with edgy content should speak with their studio representative.
Censorship attacks us all on many fronts. It does not make us happy to have to self censure, but we have to think of our employees and customers.
