Banned in China: Difference between revisions

* 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}}

** Australian ISPs in general aren't too timid to say very publicallypublicly and in details what they think of attempts to push internet censorship, of lobbyists who do it, why, and where they want this to be stuffed. Like [http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/net-censorship-plan-backlash/2008/11/11/1226318639085.html iiNet's managing director] ("the worst Communications Minister we've had in the 15 years since the <nowiki>[internet]</nowiki> industry has existed") or [http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/07/exetel-shuns-pointless-interpol-filter/ Exetel's chief executive] ("...scheme to purge the Fatherland of the filth emanating from the diseased brains of the untermenscen").

* ''[[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]]).

* ''[[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.

* 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).

* 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.

* ''[[Bruno]]'', ''[[Saw|Saw 3D]]'', ''[[Land of the Dead]]'', ''[[Hostel|Hostel II]]'', and ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' have been banned in Ukraine.

* 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.

* ''[[Abominable]]'', ''[[UncharteredUncharted]]'', 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.