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* ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'' has been banned in Australia, [http://au.gamespot.com/news/6303984.html?tag=latestheadlines%3Btitle%3B1 and customs has been ordered to seize copies]{{Dead link}}.
* ''Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure'' was banned for supposedly glorifying graffiti.
* The use of prostitutes in ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' was usually censored in some way. Though all games has had at least an uncut version of all the games released (i.e. III, Vic city and IV were uncensored with a 15+ for their PC release with IV getting a patch for consoles)
* Here, play [https://web.archive.org/web/20220124112417/http://banthisgame.com/ this game].{{context}}
* ''Singles: Flirt Up Your Life'' was banned due to being above [[MA 15]]+, with it's high sexual content.
* ''[[Silent Hill Homecoming]]'' had to have some of the [[Cruel and Unusual Death]] scenes toned down to pass OFLC classification. The same censored version was released in Germany.
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=== [[Web Original]] ===
* Australia's labor party is also taking a cue from the Chinese and attempting to push through a law mandating that ISPs block certain blacklisted sites entirely. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120712051856/http://www.censordyne.com.au/ Here]'s a particularly witty response. The Liberal Party had a similar plan when they were in government.
** Australian ISPs in general aren't too timid to say very
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=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' season 13 episode "Blame It on Lisa" was only shown three times in Brazil before it garnered complaints and the government decided to ban it due to lots of scenes that mercilessly made fun of the country (including rats being painted beautiful colors as they run through the slum streets, Homer being distracted by an old peddler while her children pickpocket him, and Bart watching a Brazilian kids' show that [[Parent Service|features a lot of sexual innuendo and scantily-clad actresses]]). It would take years for FOX to be allowed to—if nothing else—let the episode be released on the season 13 DVD box set. [[Word of God|According to DVD commentary]], the writers were amazed that this episode caused that level of controversy, while the episode "Weekend At Burnsie's" (in which Homer is prescribed medicinal marijuana) -- which they ''did'' expect to rile up complaints (at least in America), got little to no negative feedback (though the censors did ask for some scenes of Homer actually smoking his medicinal marijuana to be shortened or heavily implied rather than directly shown and episode writer, Jon Vitti, had to explain to his nephew that [[Drugs Are Bad|what Homer did in the episode was wrong]]).
== Burma/Myanmar ==
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=== Multimedia ===
* Due to a [http://techland.time.com/2012/05/02/xbox-360-windows-7-banned-in-germany-motorola-wins-patent-injunction/ patent dispute between Motorola and Microsoft], Germany banned the sale of Microsoft products, including the Xbox 360 and Windows 7.
* In general, any form of media that includes [[Those Wacky Nazis]] is going to be banned or edited in Germany, for obvious reasons.
=== Music ===
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** In ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] IV'', the scene where [[The Dragon|Seether]] slits Captain Paulson's throat has two versions, [[High-Pressure Blood|with]] and [[Bloodless Carnage|without]] gushing blood. The latter is the one found on the German release of the game.
** The German version of ''[[Left 4 Dead]] 2'' is censored, similar to the above-mentioned Australian version. However, the German version also features four extra weapons ported from ''[[Counter-Strike]]: Source'', which don't normally spawn in other versions of the game.
** Even ''[[GoldenEye]]'' was axed initially, though it was eventually released there in 2021, just in time for its release on [[Xbox]] and [[Nintendo Switch|Switch]]; in fact, that was likely the reason it was un-banned.
* ''Madworld'' is banned in Germany, despite being showcased at the Games Convention before its launch.
* There is a small but loud group of German politicians who are advocating a ban of "killer games" (there is no actual definition of the term and few are willing to attempt giving one) for years, so this list could get a lot longer in the future.
* ''[[Carmageddon]]'' also had to be censored in Germany. However, the German version used robots as targets instead of humans or zombies. The uncensored version was never released. This could, however, be fixed of sorts by swapping the names of two files in the install folder, thereby restoring some of the original content.
* Germany flat-out refused to rate ''[[Dead Rising]].'' Microsoft won't release games unless they are properly rated by a country's review board, so no ''[[Dead Rising]]'' .
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** And even more surprising ''Gears of War 3'' and ''Space Marine'' was uncut. Made even more surprising by the fact that the first two GOW games weren't rated due to violence and thus not released in Germany.
** Ditto with ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]'' which somehow got cleared for release in Germany. '''''UNCUT'''''. Rockstar [https://twitter.com/rockstargames/status/370198536538685440 announced] on their [[Twitter]] page that the game was rated USK 18 with no edits made; ironically enough, Germany's former Axis ally Japan had Rockstar cut out certain naughty bits off their games, much to the derision of Japanese players.
* ''[[Harvester (video game)|Harvester]]''; when they were compiling a list of games that, at the time, were worthy of banning, [[Word of God| producer Lee Jacobsen]] actually [[At Least I Admit It| suggested this game's inclusion.]]
=== Web Original ===
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=== Western Animation ===
* The [[Mickey Mouse]] short "The Barnyard Battle" (1929) was Banned for depicting soldiers using pickelhauben, the helmets used by German soldiers in World War I.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Cape Feare" (regarded by fans to be one of the best in the show's history) was banned in Germany for years because the scene at the beginning (with Bart and Lisa watching Rainer Wolfcastle's new show) [[No Swastikas| had Nazi references]] ''and'' homophobic jokes. Apparently, nobody considered simply deleting 20 seconds off the start of the episode, which would not have affected the plot of the episode at all.
== Greece ==
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* The Chinese example of ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'' was subverted in Singapore with huge posters of Sao Feng with the slogan "Welcome to Singapore" being put up around some of the country's more touristy districts.
* As mentioned before, [[Zoolander]] was initially banned as a move of goodwill towards neighbor Malaysia. However, the ban was lifted 5 years later, when political ties between Malaysia and Singapore suffered a strain due to some careless words. The ties have been mended, but since the movie has already been unbanned, re-banning it would be like trying to put a genie back into a bottle.
* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' was banned upon release, unbanned more than 30 years later with an R21 rating in 2011, as part of the Perspectives Film Festiva.
* ''[[The Exorcist]]'' was banned due to Singapore's laws against “films that denigrate any religious group” and “language that denigrates religion or is religiously profane" (as in, Linda Blair uses the F-word in a threat made to Jesus). Released later with an M18 with the scenes in question edited.
* ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' was banned until 2004, where it was unbanned an M18 rating. The sequel was banned initially, then released with an R21 rating. Similarly, ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' was banned until 2011, where it was unbanned with an R21.
* ''[[Saint Jack]]'' was banned due to "excessive edits required to the scenes of nudity and some coarse language before it could be shown to a general audience." Later unbanned with an M18 rating in 2006
* ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' for "blasphemous content".
=== Foodstuff ===
* Chewing gum and bubble gum are banned in Singapore, with the exception of therapeutic gum for medicinal uses.
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=== Multimedia ===
* For many years, South Korea had a ban on all cultural products from Japan due to, among other things, cultural tensions between the two countries stemming from Japan's previous occupation and treatment of the country. Before this ban was gradually lifted in the 1990s, some companies skirted around it either through piracy - e.g. bootleg versions of popular Japanese-developed games like Zemina's ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' clone ''Super Boy I'' (슈퍼 보이, Syupeo Boi) - or through partnerships with Japanese companies, who would license their products to a Korean firm to be manufactured under their own brand. Examples of the latter include Hyundai Comboy, a license-built version of the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]], and similar license-built versions of Japanese vehicles by Hyundai, such as the Grace and Galloper (based respectively on the Delica and Pajero).
=== [[Music]] ===
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=== Multimedia ===
* Depictions of smoking are [[No Smoking|censored on TV]], such as on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100725160027/http://www.2bangkok.com/2bangkok/Simpsons/SimpsonsSmoking.shtml]. Strangely, bubble pipes are inappropriate, but opium pipes are OK.
* ''[[The Economist]]'' is banned due to one of its writers insulting the royal family and accusing it of abusing its power.
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== Ukraine ==
* ''[[Bruno]]'', ''[[Saw|Saw 3D]]'', ''[[Land of the Dead]]'', ''[[Hostel|Hostel II]]'', and ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' have been banned in Ukraine.
== United Kingdom ==
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== The United States ==
* The anime version of ''[[Interspecies Reviewers]]'' was so rique it barely even finished its first season in Japan, being dropped from ''several'' networks for its explicit context. The English dub, on the other hand, was cancelled after ''one episode''.
=== Eastern Animation ===
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=== Literature ===
* Quite a large quantity of literature was [[wikipedia:Banned in boston|banned in the town of Boston]] between the mid-1800s and the mid-1900s. ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' was the last major work to get its ban removed.
* The American Library Association tracks requests and orders to ban books made to their member libraries. See [https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade1999/ 100 most frequently challenged books: 1990-1999], [https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2009/ Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009], and [https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019/ Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019] for the most-often banned and challenged books by decade since they started keeping track.
* ''[[Captain Underpants]]''; believe it or not, this silly children's book series is the most commonly banned in schools in the United States. It seems that the issue some parents have with it is that the eponymmous hero is a mean grade school principal who [[Child-Hater|hates children]], and has been brainwashed into heroics by students George and Harold (the actual protagonists); some feel this plot encourages children to defy authority and be disruptive or something like that.
=== Live-Action TV ===
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* At some point, ''[[Family Guy]]'' was retired from airing under government orders because of its drug-related episodes.
== Vietnam ==
=== Film ===
* ''[[Abominable]]'', ''[[Uncharted]]'', and ''[[Barbie (Film)|Barbie]]'' are banned due to maps shown in the the films depicting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line China's controversial nine-dash line], which was repudiated in an international arbitration ruling by a court in The Hague in 2016, a ruling which China does not recognize.
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