I supposed not as dastardly as, say, putting Naked Lunch on obscenity charges, but still a bad idea.

And my favorite TV censoring is of the Matrix. Instead of "Jesus Christ", he says "Judas Priest"...does that not disturb anyone else but me?

Agreed. And that "safe for children" thinking is behind the gutting of a lot of classic fairy tales, notably the works of the Brothers Grimm. Those tales were written dark and brutal for a reason.

Ha ha, but how great if they had also replaced the background music during the shootout with "You've Got Another Thing Coming"?

This thread belongs to Yumekui Merry. Too bad I cant imbed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEjJE3kL1E8

Maybe this doesn't fit into either category, but is censorship of a truly idiotic kind and was the first to come to mind :D

+1 I'm in!

Just noticed you missed the chance to put some swearing in the thread's title... :/

Here you go, some silly censorship. It's a bit of a history lesson:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20209_the-6-most-hilarious-failures-in-music-censorship-history.html

Thanks for the Giveaway :D

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-insane-examples-overzealous-internet-censorship/

thanks for the giveaway.

The Brady Bunch shoked TV audiences when it showed the happily married parents getting ready to sleep in the same bed. What I found even more disturbing is that the idea of sex and violence on TV became accepted decades before flatulance. The Brady family broke the sex barrier almost 40 years before the first prime time fart was allowed on The Drew Carey Show.

Thanks for the interesting giveaway, Telika!

This bill in the US state of Arizona was pretty funny last year. They wanted to essentially outlaw trolling or annoying other people on the web:

"It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person. It is also unlawful to otherwise disturb by repeated anonymous electronic or digital communications the peace, quiet or right of privacy of any person at the place where the communications were received."

Additional background:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/04/tech/web/internet-trolls-arizona-law
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/arizona-law-would-censor-internet-631407
http://gizmodo.com/5898585/itll-soon-be-illegal-to-troll-in-arizona

Hahah, that reminds me of Mao. His "Hundred Flowers" campaign (he loved campaigns) was started to allow the general public to comment on how Mao and the Communist Party were doing and to offer suggestions, etc. He was shocked at the amount of criticism, so he shut the campaign down and then had the people who spoke out arrested.

+1, I'm in. Some schools (mostly in rural US) have sex-ed classes but the teachers are not allowed to mention condoms, safe sex, etc. They are only allowed to teach abstinence.

No children in Fallout 2.
Invincible children in Fallout 3.
Won't somebody please think of the children?

Yellow ducky censorship is best censorship

Left 4 Dead german cover XD

I'm in, thanks.

A law banning “homosexual propaganda” passed in Russia’s federal Duma. The law imposing a de-facto ban on disseminating information about “non-traditional” sexuality.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/06/10/russia-drop-homophobic-law

I've put "giveaway". It's become a dirty word, lately.

(And thus, making this thread, I was totally aware of that it'll be filtered out by people who have installed a script to that effect. I savour the irony.)