Mario Party CENSORED - Mini Games/Luigi Wario Losing - Video Game Censorship
Did you know non-Japanese versions of Mario Party () censor Luigi #39;s and Wario #39;s dialogue after losing a minigame? In the JP version of Mario Party 1, they actually say...
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Convienient Censorship! || Devil May Cry #1
So, since I haven #39;t ever beat this game, Diejeeling has requested that I play through it. Well, how about if I record it and show all of you?! Also, be sure to enter for your chance to win...
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By Thomas A. Bass
Five years ago I began an experiment not of my own devising to study censorship in Vietnam.
In 2009, I signed a contract to publish one of my books in Hanoi. Called The Spy Who Loved Us, the book tells the story of Pham Xuan An, Vietnam's most celebrated journalist during the Vietnam War. (He ended his career as bureau chief for Time magazine in Saigon.)
Only after the war did we learn that An had received a dozen military medals as a Communist spy and served as North Vietnam's deadliest secret weapon.
One might think that a book about a Hero of the People's Armed Forces would be published in Vietnam without difficulty. But nothing is published in Vietnam without being censored. For five years, I watched people nip and tuck my book.
When a translation was finally published in 2014, I flew to Hanoi to meet my censors at least the half-dozen who would talk to me. These were the good guys, the brave ones, who were willing to acknowledge the situation. Behind them stood the faceless phalanx that operates throughout Vietnamese society.
My censors, several of whom doubled as my editors and publishers, apologized for what they had to do. They hoped things would improve in the future. But as Vietnam and China throw an increasing number of journalists, bloggers and other writers in prison, the tide is flowing in the opposite direction. This is why I decided to commission an accurate translation of my book and publish side-by-side editions of both the censored and uncensored versions.
What did the censors cut from my book? Among other things, Pham Xuan An is not allowed to love the United States or the time he spent studying journalism in California. He is allowed only to understand the United States. Removed were the names of exiled Vietnamese and their comments. Also removed was any criticism of China or mention of bribery, corruption or malfeasance on the part of public officials.
Even Vo Nguyen Giap, the great general who led Vietnam to victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, was cut from the narrative, having fallen from favor before his death in 2013.
Known events were excised from Vietnamese history. And An's last wishes that he be cremated and his ashes scattered in the Dong Nai River disappeared. They were replaced by a scene describing his state funeral, with the eulogy delivered by the head of military intelligence.
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It's at this point that you reconsider your status update.
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A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook:
We spend a lot of time thinking about what to post on Facebook. Should you argue that political point your high school friend made? Do your friends really want to see yet another photo of your cat (or baby)? Most of us have, at one time or another, started writing something and then, probably wisely, changed our minds.
Unfortunately, the code in your browser that powers Facebook still knows what you typedeven if you decide not to publish it.* It turns out that the things you explicitly choose not to share aren't entirely private.
Facebook calls these unposted thoughts "self-censorship," and insights into how it collects these nonposts can be found in a recent paper written by two Facebookers. Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have put online an article presenting their study of the self-censorship behavior collected from 5 million English-speaking Facebook users. (The paper was also published at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.*) It reveals a lot about how Facebook monitors our unshared thoughts and what it thinks about them.
The study examined aborted status updates, posts on other people's timelines, and comments on others' posts. To collect the text you type, Facebook sends code to your browser. That code automatically analyzes what you type into any text box and reports metadata back to Facebook.
Storing text as you type isn't uncommon on other websites. For example, if you use Gmail, your draft messages are automatically saved as you type them. Even if you close the browser without saving, you can usually find a (nearly) complete copy of the email you were typing in your Drafts folder. Facebook is using essentially the same technology here. The difference is that Google is saving your messages to help you. Facebook users don't expect their unposted thoughts to be collected, nor do they benefit from it.
Facebook, on the other hand, is analyzing thoughts that we have intentionally chosen not to share.
It is not clear to the average reader how this data collection is covered by Facebook's privacy policy. In Facebooks Data Use Policy, under a section called "Information we receive and how it is used," its made clear that the company collects information you choose to share or when you "view or otherwise interact with things. But nothing suggests that it collects content you explicitly dont share. Typing and deleting text in a box could be considered a type of interaction, but I suspect very few of us would expect that data to be saved. When I reached out to Facebook, a representative told me that the company believes this self-censorship is a type of interaction covered by the policy.
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