Our society requires we see each others faces so we can communicate correctly.
Hello Brian, can you hear me? Can you see my face? Are we communicating?
I saw somebody on the train this morning reading a 'newspaper' and there was a picture of a topless lady taking up most of the page. Naturally I found this offensive as she was not breast feeding at the time. "It makes me uncomfortable and I cannot believe anyone with freedom of choice would choose to..." show their breasts in a national newspaper. But I can respect that this is part of the British culture and should not be banned any more than people choosing to wear a veil.
On the other hand, on a recent trip to France I noticed that a group of men on the Eurostar train were watching hardcore pornographic videos on a handheld device, on a train with children aboard. I wonder if this is against the law in either France or Britain and if either sets of laws apply when 100m below the channel?