The Motion Picture Production Code of Equity and Progress, informally referred to as the Neo Hays Code, is a set of industry guidelines that all producers based in the West American industry of Hollywood must follow when producing a film, or television series in the industry. Its nickname comes from the nickname of the original Motion Picture Production Code, a set of similar guidelines imposed on major film studios of the former United States of America from 1930 to 1967.
Like the original Hays Code, the Neo Hays Code imposes censorship on the type of works that can be produced within the Hollywood industry. However, while the original Hays Code forbade certain ideas and concepts from being expressed in film that would be objectionable to those with Christian, conservative values, the Neo Hays Code instead disallows Hollywood producers from incorporating themes and ideas that are considered to be objectionable to those with more progressive, left-leaning values.
For example, the Neo Hays Code forbids Christian faith and clergies from being depicted in any manner at all, while the original Hays Code allowed the faith and clergy to be depicted exclusively in a positive manner. However, like its spiritual predecessor, the Neo Hays Code forbids portrayal of white slavery in any form, albeit for a different reason; according to the Code itself, the reason for the prohibition of white slavery portrayal is due to such a concept being "historically inaccurate" and "impossible", despite white slavery having existed in areas such as ancient Rome and the Ottoman Empire, with the original Hays Code acknowledging the former.