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2 videos brought down in less than 24 hours. One channel suspended. Now all my videos are being auto-censored by google. Google Sucks!
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Clawing back freedom of speech: fight censorship alongside your favourite felines
Clawing back freedom of speech: fight censorship alongside your favourite felines.
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by Kaitlyn Durocher Wed., Sep. 24, 2014 5:31 PM PDT
What do both Spanx and TV censorship have in common? Actress Viola Davis is a fan of both!
In a funny interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, Davis revealed her feelings for those two very different things.
"I tell people that if I don't have ten minutes to go to the bathroom then I'm just going to have to hold it. Because that's how long it takes to take these Spanx off," Davis joked in the interview.
She went on to say the reason she wears the garments is so she can fit into the sexy clothes of her character on her new series How to Get Away With Murder.
VIDEO: Viola Davis' toddler snags movie role
Davis stars in the show as a sexy law professor who, along with her students, find themselves entangled in a murder plot.
This is also why The Help actress is in favor of TV censorship. The star told Kimmel she wears body makeup all over, even on her feet, to make herself look good on screen. Davis also admitted she doesn't like certain parts of her body to be shown, which is why she says TV censorship is another one of her favorites.
We can't wait to see Davis back on the screen!
How to Get Away with Murder will air this Thursday night on ABC.
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(September 25): Putrajaya's sedition blitz, which included charging a law lecturer, has created a climate of fear which will lead to self-censorship among academics and students in institutions of higher learning, a forum on academic freedom was told last night.
If the fear continues, it will be an unhealthy development which will further cripple the roles of universities as a place to cultivate critical thinking, debate and feedback, said academics at the forum at Universiti Malaya.
Political economist Professor Dr Edmund Terence Gomez said academics and students should not succumb to the government's ongoing sedition spree by self-censoring their expressions.
"I am concerned with the stifling of academic freedom which will lead to self-censorship and that is not the way to run a university and debate ideas," he said.
Gomez's colleague, law lecturer Associate Professor Dr Azmi Sharom, was recently charged under the Sedition Act for commenting on what had happened in Perak in the 2009 constitutional crisis a move that sent shockwaves through the academia and legal fraternities.
Azmi joined a slew of individuals, including opposition politicians, activists, a lawyer, a journalist as well as two Muslim ulama who have either been charged with sedition, are facing trial or being investigated.
Gomez said there should be concrete action such as creating awareness by shining the international spotlight on the current sedition blitz.
"If we continue to sit back and let it be, then the university is finished. If we keep quiet, we can expect more of this to continue.
"If we mount a campaign, the government will sit up and take notice. We need to take this out to the international domain. Once it goes international, the government will be concerned because no one wants this kind of publicity," he said.
The academician with Malaysia's oldest university said academics and students must be given a free rein to discuss problems because universities have always been recognised as a safe place to debate and discuss ideas.
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There's a lot of debate right now about diversity and inclusivity in games. The fact that there is a lot of debate is good, the nature of a lot of the debate less so. Today I want to talk about a specific facet of one argument; the idea that feminism, or more broadly thegeneral diversitymovement, is out to 'censor the artistic creativity' of games designers.
The idea is that by criticising sexist or exclusionist elements in videogames, proponents of diversity are actually seeking to control and censor the work ofthe artistsdesigning these videogames by forcing them to adopt more inclusive, more 'PC' elements.
Now a lot of this argument can be boiled down to 'actually I like chainmail bikinis, so everyone else should shut up' which is simple enough to write off, but then I remembered the debate aroundthe gameDragon's Crownand thought that it might actually be worth having a discussion about artistic freedom, criticism, censorship, and the difference between those last two words.
Dragon's Crownis a game by Vanillaware designed as a homage to the oldGolden Axestyle of scrolling beat-em-up. The game features hand dawn art byGeorge Kamitani, and drew ire at the time, particularly from Kotaku writer Jason Schreier, for its portrayal of its female characters. The who don't know their meme can get aquick rundown here, view theoriginal article by Schreier here, anda response by Penny Arcade'sJerry Holkins, which represents the common opposition to Schreier's view at the time.
I remember being conflicted. On the one hand, I can see why people would see the art as distasteful - at first glance it looks exactly like the sort of bad-anime oversexualisation designed to appeal to adolescent boys at the exclusion of everyone else. One the other hand though, I reallylikeKamitani's art, grotesque sexualisation included, and respect his right to draw whatever the hell he likes.
The argument - at least initially - seemed to be that for games to become more progressive then we need to see less art like Kamitani's, which I disagree with on personal grounds - because I like his art - but also because this smacks of censorship. Progressiveness should never call forlessartistic expression, regardless of whether that artistic expression is deemed tasteful or not.
This seems to be the argument wielded by a lot of those against the social justice movement - that progressives are seeking to censor art and homogenise entertainment by forcing designers to cater to every possible point of view with each of their products. Art that caters to the male gaze is still art, after all, so surely decrying the overabundance of it is also a cry for censorship?
In fact, the progressive movement is actually about criticism, rather than censorship, and there's a big difference between the two. It's the difference between designers making informed artistic decisions and falling unwittingly into using tropes without knowing any better. This is actually the point of projects likeTropes vs. Women in Video Games- not to highlight every moderately sexist element in games and declareyou should not do this, but to bring these tropes to people's attention so we can address them critically and constructively.
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