Campus Censorship Is Leaching Into Business and the Arts
By Hans Bader October 11, 2018
In a pointless act of censorship, CNN removed the episodes of the TV show “Parts Unknown†that featured actress Asia Argento. It did so because it learned that she had settled an unrelated lawsuit against her by actor Jimmy Bennett, who claimed she had sex with him when he was 17. This news had no bearing on the quality or accuracy of the episodes, but CNN removed them anyway. It did so even though it would have been legal in most states for Argento to have had sex with him since he was above the age of consent in those states. As Reason’s Robby Soave notes:
Argento’s alleged conduct does indeed meet the definition of sexual assault simply because the age of consent in California is 18. In most other states, it’s 16 or 17. Since Bennett was 17 at the time of the encounter, it would have been legal for Argento to have sex with him in 39 of the 50 states.
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2018/10/11/campus-censorship-is-leaching-into-business-and-the-arts/
