let’s get this irony out of the way
right off the top not censored censored
as not censored censored as yeah it’s
ironic and no we don’t understand it
either but there you go
here it is unblurred and it’s still hard
to tell where the naughty parts are
welcome to watchmojo.com Stallman we’re
gonna choose our words very carefully
while we count down the five most
interesting and sometimes disconcerting
facts about censorship you can start by
wiping that King dumbass smile off your
rosy cheeks number five the Catholic
Church banned books for 400 years who
elected all of you to be the saviors of
everybody’s souls in Bomont the index
Librium prohibit Oram the list of
prohibited books was a publication by
the catholic church started in 1559 by
Pope Paul the fourth for hundreds of
years the church had conflicts about
what should be published by the church
as part of their doctrine but this was
the beginning of the church censoring
public works once on the list authors
could defend themselves but ultimately
if they wanted their works published
they were forced into revising it the
list was composed of work from many
fields such as astronomy philosophy and
literature from some of the greatest
minds of all time including Johannes
Kepler John Locke and Voltaire it was
finally abolished in 1965 by Pope Paul
the sixth though the church still
suggests that works about religious
canon be quote reviewed number four
nazis may have censored films in
Hollywood in his book the collaboration
Hollywood pact with Hitler
bent or won the Junior Fellow at Harvard
has unearthed what he asserts is some
unsavory collaboration between major
American film studios and the Nazi Party
in the 1930s and 40s though some critics
dispute his strongly worded claims in
1933 Hitler’s government appointed
diplomat Georg Eastlink to Los Angeles
so he could permanently protest any film
that criticized the Nazi Party I’m sorry
I thought not to shake hands with
haha what have you got against this mr.
Chaplin what have you got against
everybody else though he appeared to
have no official authority film studios
were known to bend to his will
movies that seemed sympathetic to Jewish
people were revised and in at least one
instance even the word Jew was removed
completely from dialog the 1937 picture
Lancer spy was dropped entirely after
Keasling decried the depiction of German
officials number three Romans invented
censors Romans gave us the census but
these head counters also had another
sinister task regimen moorim or keeping
public morals so not only were Roman
censors charged with recording the
status of the nation’s people’s they
were also in charge of deciding whether
or not they deserved to be considered
citizens with all of the rights that
that would entail chosen from among the
people to speak for the people their
responsibility was to enforce Roman
character and ethic entirely as they saw
fit regardless of whether an actual law
was broken or not we take away their
freedom part of their job was to put
physical marks on the bodies of
offenders kind of like modern sensors
actually number two censorship on social
media could threaten freedom of speech
according to Pew Research Center more
than 60% of Americans rely on social
media as their primary source of news on
one hand that’s great because reputable
news organizations can use Facebook for
instance as a platform to reach a wider
audience but the downside as the
Columbia Journalism Review recently
pointed out is that they have to play by
Facebook censorship rules as opposed to
simply the laws of the land
filmmakers political cartoonists and
journalists have all reported instances
where their controversial messages were
removed from social media platforms
without explanation YouTube has even
gone so far as to team up with
governments to give them an expedited
censorship process on their platform as
they did in Pakistan if Facebook
police’s nude photos right then why
can’t they plea trick police racist or
xenophobic comics the potential problem
in all this is that making corporate
entities de facto gatekeepers to
information can seriously hamper the
effectiveness of a free and independent
media which is essential for a
democratic society
number one the Chinese government our
internet censorship masters
I ran may have recently been named
number one in Internet censorship but
there was just something about how the
Chinese do it with over 700 million
Internet users in the country
censoring them is a daunting task so
they’ve invented some ingenious tools to
get the job done the Great Firewall of
China is maintained by 30,000 government
officers who monitor all online activity
using special programs that log all
keystrokes even those in private chats
or online games not only are many social
media websites and blogs blocked but
search engines are filtered and will not
offer results on keywords the government
has prohibited though there are always
ways around these obstacles breaking
Chinese censorship laws could result in
fines of nearly 2 thousand dollars or
jail time for serious offences so how
about you would you risk imprisonment to
fight for your freedom of speech I
should probably just play it safe and
stick with what’s allowed on network TV
police procedurals where they stack up
dead hookers like cordwood and have you
ever been censored unfairly on social
media for more state glorifying top tens
and good bits blurt out top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com it
would have been even worse if Paul
hadn’t been so quick on the profanity
buzzer well done Paul you’re back on the
payroll
[Music]
right off the top not censored censored
as not censored censored as yeah it’s
ironic and no we don’t understand it
either but there you go
here it is unblurred and it’s still hard
to tell where the naughty parts are
welcome to watchmojo.com Stallman we’re
gonna choose our words very carefully
while we count down the five most
interesting and sometimes disconcerting
facts about censorship you can start by
wiping that King dumbass smile off your
rosy cheeks number five the Catholic
Church banned books for 400 years who
elected all of you to be the saviors of
everybody’s souls in Bomont the index
Librium prohibit Oram the list of
prohibited books was a publication by
the catholic church started in 1559 by
Pope Paul the fourth for hundreds of
years the church had conflicts about
what should be published by the church
as part of their doctrine but this was
the beginning of the church censoring
public works once on the list authors
could defend themselves but ultimately
if they wanted their works published
they were forced into revising it the
list was composed of work from many
fields such as astronomy philosophy and
literature from some of the greatest
minds of all time including Johannes
Kepler John Locke and Voltaire it was
finally abolished in 1965 by Pope Paul
the sixth though the church still
suggests that works about religious
canon be quote reviewed number four
nazis may have censored films in
Hollywood in his book the collaboration
Hollywood pact with Hitler
bent or won the Junior Fellow at Harvard
has unearthed what he asserts is some
unsavory collaboration between major
American film studios and the Nazi Party
in the 1930s and 40s though some critics
dispute his strongly worded claims in
1933 Hitler’s government appointed
diplomat Georg Eastlink to Los Angeles
so he could permanently protest any film
that criticized the Nazi Party I’m sorry
I thought not to shake hands with
haha what have you got against this mr.
Chaplin what have you got against
everybody else though he appeared to
have no official authority film studios
were known to bend to his will
movies that seemed sympathetic to Jewish
people were revised and in at least one
instance even the word Jew was removed
completely from dialog the 1937 picture
Lancer spy was dropped entirely after
Keasling decried the depiction of German
officials number three Romans invented
censors Romans gave us the census but
these head counters also had another
sinister task regimen moorim or keeping
public morals so not only were Roman
censors charged with recording the
status of the nation’s people’s they
were also in charge of deciding whether
or not they deserved to be considered
citizens with all of the rights that
that would entail chosen from among the
people to speak for the people their
responsibility was to enforce Roman
character and ethic entirely as they saw
fit regardless of whether an actual law
was broken or not we take away their
freedom part of their job was to put
physical marks on the bodies of
offenders kind of like modern sensors
actually number two censorship on social
media could threaten freedom of speech
according to Pew Research Center more
than 60% of Americans rely on social
media as their primary source of news on
one hand that’s great because reputable
news organizations can use Facebook for
instance as a platform to reach a wider
audience but the downside as the
Columbia Journalism Review recently
pointed out is that they have to play by
Facebook censorship rules as opposed to
simply the laws of the land
filmmakers political cartoonists and
journalists have all reported instances
where their controversial messages were
removed from social media platforms
without explanation YouTube has even
gone so far as to team up with
governments to give them an expedited
censorship process on their platform as
they did in Pakistan if Facebook
police’s nude photos right then why
can’t they plea trick police racist or
xenophobic comics the potential problem
in all this is that making corporate
entities de facto gatekeepers to
information can seriously hamper the
effectiveness of a free and independent
media which is essential for a
democratic society
number one the Chinese government our
internet censorship masters
I ran may have recently been named
number one in Internet censorship but
there was just something about how the
Chinese do it with over 700 million
Internet users in the country
censoring them is a daunting task so
they’ve invented some ingenious tools to
get the job done the Great Firewall of
China is maintained by 30,000 government
officers who monitor all online activity
using special programs that log all
keystrokes even those in private chats
or online games not only are many social
media websites and blogs blocked but
search engines are filtered and will not
offer results on keywords the government
has prohibited though there are always
ways around these obstacles breaking
Chinese censorship laws could result in
fines of nearly 2 thousand dollars or
jail time for serious offences so how
about you would you risk imprisonment to
fight for your freedom of speech I
should probably just play it safe and
stick with what’s allowed on network TV
police procedurals where they stack up
dead hookers like cordwood and have you
ever been censored unfairly on social
media for more state glorifying top tens
and good bits blurt out top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com it
would have been even worse if Paul
hadn’t been so quick on the profanity
buzzer well done Paul you’re back on the
payroll
[Music]
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