Censorship
Censorship is a way of controlling certain forms of media to ensure certain people are not offended by certain pieces of material, or, in other words, Censorship aims to ruin everyone’s fun. F**king bulls**t! OH COME ON!
Just The Facts
- Censorship is spawned from the words Censor and Ship. Censor is a noun, usually forming the phrase "to censor". Ship is also a noun, usually a shortened term for "A large vessel capable of water travel".
- No-one likes censorship, as it basically takes away things that we enjoy. Like nudity.
- Nudity should never be censored. Unless it's fat nudity, in which case, take it the fuck away!
WTF is censorship, cracked.com?
Well, let's start from the beginning. The first known case of censorship was in the beginning of time. A man and a woman, named Adam and Eve respectively, were created by a chap named God. They spent their days frolicking in the Garden of Eden, naked as you please, until they ate an apple of knowledge (golden delicious?). After chomping down the delicious fruit, they felt ashamed of their nudity and covered themselves up. And thus, censorship was born, and it's been fucking up our entertainment ever since!
Nothing is safe from censorship. NOTHING!
DAMN YOU INTERWEBZ!
Censorship comes in many forms, mostly government or religion based, and it covers a wide range of....stuff. Such as:
- Moral Censorship - This is when someone censors something they feel is obscene. Like the word cunt. Moral Censorship can be used in real life and entertainment, which makes it twice as irritating.
- Creative Censorship - Ever had a really good idea for a film and written it into a script and handed it over to a major studio and had it produced and released, only to find all the breast and testicle shots have been cut? Thank Creative Censorship!
- Censorship of Freedom - Want to walk out the door and take a dump on the neighbours dog and see how he likes dealing with you shit for a change? Well you can't! And America was meant to be a land of freedom! WHAT HAPPENED?
*cue national anthem*
But wait, cracked.com, surely censorship can be useful...sometimes?
So it would seem. Yes, there are things in this word that are immoral and wrong, and therefore need to be stopped, like Jason Friedberg or the French. In these cases, censorship can be applied in a positive way (let's face it, we'd all have been happier if someone had killed the makers of Sex and the City 2.)
WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
Unfortunately, instead of focussing on the things that can really harm humanity (see above), censorship is being slapped on things that don't really need it. Videogames, for example, are constantly being attacked by people with too much time and money, since apparently, gaming is the cause of most attrocities. War is caused by games. Drugs were invented by Activision. Guitar Hero is directly responsible for rape. Of course, this is all nonsense, but try telling people like Jack Thompson that. He'll have you in court before lunch!
The crazy eyes of a lunatic
Is censorship on the internet?
Yes, but it hasn't stopped us!
You tell 'em, you dangerously unstable man!
What will stop us?
Nothing!
Australia section gone
ReplyUnfortunately whatever moron wrote this article is horribly mistaken about censorship in Australia. Having lived in both countries a can say that the US is far worse than Australia in terms of censorship. This whole article is typical of the uninformed and mildly retatrded way in which the US veiws the rest of the world. Well done fucktards.
ReplyOkay, one, thank you, that was called for completely, two, tell me when you've tried a topic, I'll look into what you've done and call you a fucktard.
Our government is so uptight about games is because we only have a tops of MA15+. If we had an R18+ rating things would be alot smoother
ReplyWow, didn't think the government was so uptight with Censorship, I thought we were pretty loose to be honest.
ReplyWhat are we missing out on?
That's so weird, cuz I thought we were very loose, people swear all the time on Aussie tv all day long and American tv and other forms of media have always seemed so uptight in comparison. Our ad campaign was even 'where the bloody he'll are you!' haha damn uptight poms banning it!
ReplyI've seen Neighbours, I completely agree with you.
Perhapes you may want to do some research. Australia does sell "Lady Chatterley's Lover". And "Fanny Hill". And the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days...". I know this as I own copies of all three bought and purchased in a bookstore. In Australia. Where they were blatently selling them in full view of the public. The cads!
ReplySorry, I did my research, guess it was bogus.