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Here's some thoughts and trivia about censorship: 1) When I bought The Witcher from Good Old Games, I was surprised to find that for some reason my copy of it was censored - ie, the 'sex cards' were edited and more covered up than in the original game. This is apparently because Australia needed this to be done in order to allow the game to be released (probably because they don't/didn't have an 18+ rating for games, is my guess). The strange thing is: I don't live in Australia. I live in New Zealand, which is completely independent of Australia nad has a completely independent (and thankfully much more reasonable) ratings and censorship board, and which does have an 18+ rating for games, so this seemed really bizarre. 2) This is probably not news to anyone, but Japanese porn censorship laws are absolutely insane. Genitals must be censored... but other than that, you can film the most hosed-up poo poo. I've heard that this is in part where the obsession with tentacle porn comes from: tentacles are not, strictly speaking, genitals, so you can show those ok. Even if they look an awful lot like genitals. 3) The old CGI TV show 'Reboot' apparently struggled constantly with the BS&P (Broadcasting Standards and Practices board), which restricted them in all sorts of ways. All sorts of bizarre requirements were meted out, such as having basically no violence, no hint of sexuality, or anything. One of the most notorious examples is forbidding the creators from showing a character (Dot) giveing a kiss to her younger brother (Enzo) on his birthday - apparently because it 'promoted incenst'. In the words of the creators, this suggestion by the BS&P was "one of the sickest things I've ever heard." In response to the constant demands by the BS&P, the show creators started put in-show references to them. Some great examples include: - In one episode, the protagonist, Bob, was supposed to leap from the back of a dragon, through a stained glass window, and then start fighting a skeleton. The BS&P refused to allow the creators to show this, saying that jumping through a window would make children emulate the same thing. So in the episode, Bob leaps from the dragon's back, and, in mid-air, issues the following instruction to his wrist computer (Glitch): "Glitch, BS&P!". Glitch teleports him safely to the other side of the window and the scene continues as planned. - In the Talent Night episode, a band sings a song called BSnP (to the tune of YMCA), with the following lyrics: "Cause we're livin' with B S 'n' P! Yeah, we're livin' with B S 'n' P! Oh, it's fun to play in the nonviolent way, In the nonviolent way! Yeah! We're livin' with B S 'n' P! Cause we're livin' with B S 'n' P! Hey, it's fun to play in the nonviolent way, In the nonviolent way!" - The cityscape lights in the background of one episode spell out (in binary): "gently caress you, broadcast standards" Note that after season 2, Reboot moved to a different network and were free of the more restrictive BS&P demands. Incidientally, the show got really good around this time too.
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