Cersors

[ríomhaire]

1. This covers TV, films and games so I put it here
2. This is not a rant on the evilness of censorship, but rather hypocrisy

First I'll look at TV, in particular music videos on the music channel Kerrang.
Gay Bar - Electric Six
In this video many men are seen rubbing and bathing eachother, this is fine but a rubber duck, an egg and a pepper dispenser are blurred out (they are accompanied by the words "I've got something to put in you") yet one of the men is seen olding an identicle pepper dispense which is not blurred out. The lines
"Lets starts a war, start an nuclear war"
are edited out, why? I've seen references to war on various TV shows.

Jesus of Suberbia - Green Day
A person smoking is blurred out in this video. What's wrong with smoking? I've seen it in many other television programmes, such as Tom and Jerry. Sure, it could be pot but it could equily be rolled tobaco. Blood is also blurred out in this video, as it is in other videos I've seen blood in. But in the Disney Cartoon Tarzan and in the popular show the Simpsons and Dragonball Z it is not. Why are cartoons allowed get away with more?




And now I shall compare a film; Alexander (rated 15s) with a game; SiN: Emergance (rated 18s) (note: I have not actualy played SiN, I am sorry if some information is inaccurate. Please say if it is)

Sex
SiN
A woman with big breasts is depicted in a bikini, that's about it.
Alexander
A completly naked woman is shown jumping around on a bed. References to rape are made.

Violence
SiN
You kill a few hundred soldiers and mutants.
Alexander
Thousands (if not millions) of people are seen killed. Killing and death are glorrified.

Yet you have to be 3 years older to play SiN than to see Alexander :\

 

[Evo]

Those damn edited vidoes suck!

Gimme the full bloodied Jesus of Suburbia why dont ya Kerrang! Or are they scared we will all run around cutting ourselves!

The video tells a story and the blood letting and smoking make up key parts of the story, bastards for editing the videos

D:

 

[15357]

Jesus of Suberbia - Green Day
A person smoking is blurred out in this video. What's wrong with smoking? I've seen it in many other television programmes, such as Tom and Jerry. Sure, it could be pot but it could equily be rolled tobaco. Blood is also blurred out in this video, as it is in other videos I've seen blood in. But in the Disney Cartoon Tarzan and in the popular show the Simpsons and Dragonball Z it is not. Why are cartoons allowed get away with more?

Drug use. We did that too.

Gay Bar - Electric Six
In this video many men are seen rubbing and bathing eachother, this is fine but a rubber duck, an egg and a pepper dispenser are blurred out (they are accompanied by the words "I've got something to put in you") yet one of the men is seen olding an identicle pepper dispense which is not blurred out. The lines
"Lets starts a war, start an nuclear war"
are edited out, why? I've seen references to war on various TV shows.

Glorification of war? But taht's just stupid.

Violence
SiN
You kill a few hundred soldiers and mutants.
Alexander
Thousands (if not millions) of people are seen killed. Killing and death are glorrified.

A game is interactive, movies are not.

 

[ríomhaire]

Drug use. We did that too.

1. Prove it's illegal drugs? Who says it's not just tabaco?
2. I have seen drugs smoked in TV shows, why can't a music video show it?

Glorification of war? But taht's just stupid.

I'm not entirly sure what you're saying here.

A game is interactive, movies are not.

Are you saying killing someone in a video game is worse than enjoying Rambo killing people? I don't see how.

 

[15357]

1. Prove it's illegal drugs? Who says it's not just tabaco?
2. I have seen drugs smoked in TV shows, why can't a music video show it?

I'm not entirly sure what you're saying here.


Are you saying killing someone in a video game is worse than enjoying Rambo killing people? I don't see how.

I'm not saying anything here. I'm guessing the reasons.

 

[CptStern]

well it could be the individual broadcasters ..an example ..in my neck of the woods there's a tv station that will play sexually themed programs at prime time (9pm) ..there's nothing left to the imagination ..the only thing they havent shown is full view penetration but everything else is fair game ...on another tv station they'll censor the word "bitch" ..so ya sometimes it's local self-censorship rather than federally mandated censorship

 

[tehsolace]

Good observations. It depends on the time it was censored though. Alexander was made in Nov. 2004, and SiN was back in 1998.

Standards changed greatly in what is allowable and what is not within those 6 years. Back in 1998, not much was allowed and you had to be older to play violent games, but restrictions loosened and now you can play a game even more irratic such as Alexander at a younger age.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

There's a movie coming out called "This film is not yet rated" that deals with most of this stuff. It tracks down the mysterious people behind the MPAA.

 

[Beerdude26]

Good observations. It depends on the time it was censored though. Alexander was made in Nov. 2004, and SiN was back in 1998.

Standards changed greatly in what is allowable and what is not within those 6 years. Back in 1998, not much was allowed and you had to be older to play violent games, but restrictions loosened and now you can play a game even more irratic such as Alexander at a younger age.

Psst... He's talking about the SiN Episodes.

 

[cherry]

what's a cersor?

 

[Beerdude26]

what's a cersor?

He misspelled "censor"

 

[CyberPitz]

I came in here looking for Wiindows XP Cursors and only got this lousy shirt!