The Evolution Of Censorship
Here is just a few examples of censorship’s most shocking…or just simply ridiculous moments in history. Subscribe to our channel:
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Censorship has a nice idea behind; you know, protecting people’s morals and innocence and such. Because heaven forbid if children are exposed to evil and sin beyond the depths of our control. Of course, there is some practicality in censorship, as you don’t want children to be exposed to things that they aren’t ready to see and cannot understand. But, sometimes there are political motives behind censorship and it can reach ridiculous measures. In 1915, the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that movies were not exempt from the First Amendment and that they couldn’t show anything that would make people sway their preference to those who were sinful and immoral. So pretty much what that meant was, don’t make anything that will make people want to root for the bad guys.
Sometimes censorship standards just got plain ridiculous, such as the topic of animal nudity. When Disney first introduced the character of Flossie the cow, she adorned only a cowbell and walked on all fours. Seems perfectly innocent right? Well, the FCC didn’t think so, and put strict rules on Disney. So, Flossie’s next appearance required her to walk on two legs and wear a full length dress. Because, you know, children can be corrupted from seeing a naked cow on their televisions. Let’s hope that the censors then proceeded to clothe all cows around the country, lest we get corrupted by animals in their natural state.
But of course, we can’t talk about censorship without the 2004 Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident when the singer’s right breast accidentally popped out. The FCC went into overdrive of censoring anything that showed extra skin. The extent that they went to aggravated viewers to the point where they filed complaints, and the FCC became the butt of several jokes for the next few years.
Comedians have been often plagued with censorship standards, and often found themselves unable to properly do their standup acts out of fear for being arrested for saying too many obscene or inappropriate words. Beloved comedian George Carlin was arrested after criticizing the FCC. The charges were eventually dropped. Lenny Bruce was also arrested for using the word, “Cocksucker” in his standup show, and would be arrested a few more times in his career.
Sometimes censorship came out of fear. For example, the United Kingdom was fearful of an inevitable uprising of ninjas taking over the country. So when the cartoon of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” came out, the “Ninja” part was omitted and replaced with “Hero.” Because apparently watching fictional ninja turtles was going to contribute to the up rise of ninjas by corrupting and converting the British children.
Finally, censorship was heavy in the classic film, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and had to be edited so that the characters didn’t come across as lustful. The original cut was considered to be immoral, sinful, and vulgar. Supposedly the reason behind the edits was to make the characters more relatable.
But that’s not all when it comes to the evolution of censorship, and give it a few more years and there will be more stories to add to this video.
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What's up with that voice
ok let me get this straight. Its okay to show brutal murder, slaughter and guts being ripped out, but its not okay to say fuck and shit on TV because that lowers the morale and its sinful? Makes a lot of sense. Id rather see over the top brutality and man-slaughter than hear such an obscene word.
I LIKE THIS SPEAKER!!! 🙂
Mohammed was gay. It's not a big deal. Relax.
Japanese porn, where the vaginas & I think the tip of the penis is censored, wtf?
0:26 WHAT IS IT. AND DONT GIMME THAT IT THNIKS IT A CHICK SO IT IS BULLSHIT.
Im scared O_O
0:26 Animal nudity? More like furry porn.
when naruto was on disney they skipped an entire portion of the show and by that i mean they didnt even bother censoring some of the episodes they literally just didnt even air them which brings up the question why the fuck was that show on disney in the first place i knew they would censor alot of it but i didnt think they would skip entire episodes why dont they just do a monthly subscription kind of thing like HBO where you pay whatever amount per month then you get every channel uncensored its that fucking simple cable companies would get more money and i finally get to hear people say fuck on tv without staying up til 3am everybody wins and dont let my bad grammar fool you thats a fucking great idea so make it happen seriously
Y you post furry artwork for animal nudity? it spreads the wrong idea abbout us. also voice sounds like Moria Brown XD
I love your voice it reminds me of someone
South Park is always doing something to upset, People and countries and saying racist shit. That's why the show is DUMB ass hell and it gay to.
At 2:53, who is the chick with the big tits next to the naked guy?
Voice of katie morga pornstar?
Extremist Muslims threatening murder for showing Mohammad?
Nah.
Muslims believe that it is blasphemy for their god to be shown.
That's why in Mosque (Muslim churches) have no pictures, statues, etc. showing Mohammad or Allah.
Trust me, I used to be Muslim.
Many of these examples are not censorship. True censorship is forced altering the creative vision of a creator by an authority… Some of these changes were made voluntarily, without even the government pushing them. The one about NBK isn't even close… Thats just about certain retail chains deciding to not carry the copy the movie.
I never understood why so many popular youtube channels censor obscenities
I don't blame YouTube's suggestions as much as I do myself for clicking on the video and having to witness a Furry.
From 1930 to 1st July 1934 was the so-called "Pre-Code Hollywood". The movies of that period are the BEST MOVIES EVER MADE and a lot of them are CULT movies. Damn! Censorship sucks.
Why didn't they put Betty boop for having her dress to short so in 1938 they changed that and the garter
Fucking fur-fags
I would just like to point out that we live in a society where showing live feed of people killing themselves during 9/11 is ok, yet saying shit is a no-no and must be censored
Kasumi???????
belief , freedom of speech, political correctness. i can only wonder how free the US is. many say america is brave and the home of the free. one word to describe that……. BULLSHIT. IF PEOPLE WERE REALLY FREE WE SIMPLY WOULD BE ABLE TO SELF SUSTAIN OURSELVES AND NOT HAVE AUTHORITIES AND RADICALS UP OUR ASS CONSTANTLY. MAN AND FREEDOM SIMPLY DOES NOT COEXIST WITHOUT SACRIFICE. Today only more remote areas have great amounts of freedom compared to countries like the US. Obviously there is worse but if you are calling a country free you should see what haves been happening within the last 20 years.
You forgot political "correctness"
that voice is horrible, had to pause in the second 0:06
that fucking VOICE. no thank you.
why would the british be thinking ninjas were going to attack?
"Y'know dooon't saaaaaay s-s-sweaaaars." Jerma985, 2013
you cunt why did you just censor yourself
oh my a furry
dat voice tho brah. i hate it, like the video tho brah
I was going to use this for a school project but not after I saw that animal nudity picture…
I hate the voice, it's so annoying
WHAT!!! A cartoon cow walking on all fours and wearing no clothes, oh no a cartoon cow looking like a real cow we can't have that.
I hate censorship. fuck the fcc
Cocksuckers.