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Final Fantasy 7 CENSORED – Bad Language/Swearing Dialogue- Video Game Censorship – Video

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Final Fantasy 7 CENSORED - Bad Language/Swearing Dialogue- Video Game Censorship
Did you know PC versions of Final Fantasy 7 (7) censor some of the dialogue? In the PC versions of FF7, some of the bad language and swearing is actually censored!...

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Skyrim – Unnecessary Censorship Censord – Video

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150212 – Censorship of Websites – Video

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150212 - Censorship of Websites
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Censorship by Google – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Censorship by Google is Google's removal or omission of information from its services or those of its subsidiary companies, such as YouTube, in order to comply with its company policies, legal demands, or various government censorship laws.[1]

In February 2003, Google stopped showing the advertisements of Oceana, a non-profit organization protesting a major cruise ship operation's sewage treatment practices. Google cited its editorial policy at the time, stating "Google does not accept advertising if the ad or site advocates against other individuals, groups, or organizations."[2] The policy was later changed.[3]

In April 2008, Google refused to run ads for a UK Christian group opposed to abortion, explaining that "At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain 'abortion and religion-related content.'"[4]

In April 2014, though Google accepts ads from the pro-choice abortion lobbying group NARAL, they have removed ads for some anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers. Google removed the Web search ads after an investigation by NARAL found evidence that the ads violate Google's policy against deceptive advertising. According to NARAL, people using Google to search for "abortion clinics" got ads advertising crisis pregnancy centers that were in fact anti-abortion. Google said in a statement that it had followed normal company procedures in applying its ad policy standards related to ad relevance, clarity, and accuracy in this case.[5][6]

In early 2006, Google removed several news sites from its news search engine due to hate speech stating that, "We do not allow articles and sources expressly promoting hate speech viewpoints in Google News, although referencing hate speech for commentary and analysis is acceptable". The sites removed from Google News remain accessible from Google's main search page as normal.[7][8][9]

In March 2007, allegedly lower resolution satellite imagery on Google Maps showing post-Hurricane Katrina damage in the U.S. state of Louisiana was replaced with higher resolution images from before the storm.[10] Google's official blog of April revealed that the imagery was still available in KML format on Google Earth or Google Maps.[11][12]

In March 2008, Google removed street view and 360 degree images of military bases per the Pentagon's request.[13]

To protect the privacy and anonymity of individuals Google Street View in Google Maps and Google Earth shows photographs containing car license number plates and people's faces by blurring them. Users may request further blurring of images that feature the user, their family, their car or their home. Users can also request the removal of images that feature inappropriate content.[14] In some countries (e.g. Germany) it modifies images of specific buildings.[15] In the United States, Google Street View adjusts or omits certain images deemed of interest to national security by the federal government.[13]

As of May 2013, Google Play forbids AT&T users from downloading Open Garden, a wireless mesh network platform, which it lists as "incompatible" at the request of the carrier.

On 12 December 2012, Google removed the option to turn off the SafeSearch image filter entirely, forcing users to enter more specific search queries to get adult content.[16][17][18]

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The Bench billboard brouhaha: genuine issue or marketing ploy?

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THE ORIGINAL uncensored image of the Bench billboard circulated on social media.

Was it worth it?

That was one of the many questions raised at our Lifestyle staff meeting regarding the controversy over the now-famous Bench billboards along Edsa Guadalupe, Mandaluyong.

It refers to talk that the lifestyle brand had defaced its own billboard and deliberately kept mum about it for days, as netizens expressed their outrage over the seeming censorship, causing the ad campaign to go viral.

The subject of the Bench Valentine campaign called Love All Kinds of Love, which includes images of two same-sex couples, is in itself controversial, and surely would have generated a lot of talk. But without the added censorship angle, would it have gone viral?

By censoring its own billboard and not addressing the issue quick enough, Benchs intentions have been put under scrutiny. Its disingenuous, netizens say.

If Benchs goal was to make its ad campaign go viral, and for the brand to get a lot of buzz, was it worth earning the ire of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community, the group that it purports to champion, in the process?

Love All Kinds of Love is audacious and ballsy and, yes, wow!

I was among the many who applauded Benchs campaign the first time I saw ita composite of four images featuring movie legend Gloria Romero and her grandson; actress-model Solenn Heussaff and her fianc Nico Bolzico; and two real-life same-sex couples, magazine creative director Vince Uy and events organizer Nio Gaddi, and makeup artist Ana Paredes and interior designer Carla Peaon Suyen Corp. chair and Bench founder Ben Chans Instagram.

The third and now famous photo was then in its uncensored form.

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When online censorship is beautiful

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Story highlights John Sutter talks with artist Mishka Henner about his "Dutch Landscapes" series The series focuses on an artful effort by the Dutch government to censor Google Maps

It would be hard not to smile, right?

I mean, what is that alien thing?

An oversized kaleidoscope?

A rip in the Matrix?

Some kind of freakish, town-sized cauliflower?

When Mishka Henner, a 38-year-old artist and photographer, came across these "blurred" images of Dutch landscapes on Google Maps, he was similarly perplexed and amused.

"Well, I laughed," he said of the initial discovery.

The hidden zones are "not only bases, they're also royal palaces and fuel depots and ammunition depots and that sort of thing," Henner told me. The Dutch government "used a pretty spectacular method for hiding these locations, which does everything but hide them, basically."

Photographer Mishka Henner

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Amol Rajan: Its about time we abolished traffic lights in the capital

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The logic is irresistible. What with its celebration of personal autonomy and private enterprise, its dependence on a rules-based system and its ability to generate instinctive suspicion of outsiders, I have long thought of driving as mere libertarianism in motion. Thats one reason Ronald Reagan was so fond of using it in his political metaphors.

And yet a funny thing has happened. The experience has actually turned me into something of a hippy, a loved-up citizen rather than a hyper-rational hater. Ive found talking to Taz, my instructor, therapeutic: his 10 siblings and four daughters seem like old friends already, even when he is screaming RELAX, bruvva! CALM your BEANS, my son! as we reverse- park into a bay in Wood Green.

Despite such commotion, being behind the wheel has struck me as a beautiful vantage point. Like Louis Armstrong, I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom, for me and you. Like with cycling, I find driving helps me appreciate the beauty of our environment. Best of all, Ive found other drivers to be communicative and kind, albeit probably looking after their own interests when they see a learner driver.

All this is cheering. Theres just one drag, which is that I hate traffic so much it might stop me driving altogether.

I know everyone hates traffic. But I really, really cannot bear it. Traffic is like a huge grater scratching away at my soul. I feel like my whole life is a war against time, with a constant sense that there is so much to do. Traffic, even with the radio on, is dead time.

And these two sentiments surprise at the generosity of fellow drivers, and hatred of traffic combine to give me an idea. Its bonkers but should we think about abolishing traffic lights? If not all, then some at least?

I know anecdotal evidence is the worst kind but I cant help but make the comparison with India, whose roads I have spent ages on, including recently. Yes, there are 150,000 road deaths in India each year, half a million recorded accidents, and the new government is planning radical action.

But in many cities, the crazy traffic, with cows, rickshaws, mopeds, bikes, lorries and cars in constant, frenzied negotiation, just seems to work, like a highly adaptable organism. People pull off the most outlandish manoeuvres and constantly get away with it.

They do this, I think, because there is a presumption toward maximum communication which traffic lights (which Indians do have, at big junctions) censor. When we come to a traffic light, we all look at the lights one reason nearly half of personal injury accidents happen there.

What if we looked at each other instead? Sure, traffic lights send much clearer signals than the infinitely complex human face. But over time wed learn to trust each other.

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Cinequest Honors Director John Boorman

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Director John Boorman will be honored and screen his final film at this year's Cinequest

The thrilling, dangerous visions of British director John Boorman include some of the most distinctive films of the last half of the 20th century.

In Point Blank (1967), the rock-faced Lee Marvin prowls a pop-art California. Boorman's hit Deliverance (1972) is one of the definitive statements of American fantasies of violence. Zardoz (1974) is au courant enough to be the subject of a full-sized Burning Man effigythere, inside the Playa-clay cranium of Zardoz, a one-couch capacity theater played the 1974 film in an endless loop. Boorman's later work is just as vital: the multi-Oscar nominated Hope and Glory (1987), the ripping adventure Beyond Rangoon (1995) beat The Hunger Games to the punch and is one of Patricia Arquette's best films. Le Carre meets farce in The Tailor of Panama (2001), and the nimble, ridiculously entertaining The General (1998) is one of the finest films ever made about Ireland.

Boorman opens this year's 25th annual Cinequest film festival with Queen and Country. The festival will also honor the director, along with actress Rosario Dawson, with the Maverick Spirit Award.

Via telephone, Boorman claims this sequel to Hope and Glory will be his last film, though critics are trying to convince him otherwise. "I've been encouraged to do another oneI'm 82," he says. "I think Clint Eastwood is 84, and Manuel de Oliveira is 100-something years old. That makes me a spring chicken."

I'd swap American Sniper for Queen and Country in a fast minutediscarding Eastwood's movie-derived idea of military life in favor of the fresher, wiser anecdotes of Boorman's own stint in the National Service.

Boorman's surrogate, Bill Rohan (Callum Turner), is praying like hell not to be shipped to fight in the Korean War. On base, he deals with sardonic officers: Richard E. Grant and David Thewlis among them. Boorman being Boorman, the women in the film are loaded with personality: Dawn Rohan as Bill's wild sister and Tamsin Egerton as the self-destructive upper-class student Rohan romances.

Like Rohan, Boorman was indeed charged with "Seducing a Soldier from His Duty." "This boy was the son of Ian Mikardo, a prominent Labor MPafter having listened to my lectures, the son decided he wasn't going to go to Korea," Boorman says. "Mikardo threatened to raise the matter in Parliament. It was a big scandal."

Boorman filmed in Romania, since he couldn't find a period British Army base to shoot in; however, the riverside house at Shepperton is an existing location, not far from the spot where Boorman lived when he was a young escapee of the London Blitz. There he watched movies being filmed at the nearby studio. Seventy years later, it's by the Thames that Boorman indicates his career is closing. "At the end of Queen and Country, you see a camera winding downit's my signal to the world that this is my last movie."

After a noteworthy career in British TV, Boorman worked on a documentary on D.W. Griffith. Both Hell in the Pacific (1968) and Leo the Last (1970) were informed with a silent film aesthetic. Boorman's studies of the impact of the silent cinematic image may have helped make the penultimate shot in Deliverance powerful enough to be stolen by dozens of films. It's a surprise cut to a shocking image, after everything seems peaceful and resolved: a dead arm thrusting out of the water. The graveside finale of Carrie (1976) copied it; a last popup is now mandatory in every horror film. "Jon Voight's nightmare," Boorman explained, "is that the body of the man he killed will come to the surface and betray him. That image comes out of Arthurian legend, and I used it in Excaliburthe arm of the Lady in the Lake. This, to me, is an image of an idea coming out of the unconscious. "

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Scientists pinpoint a gene regulator that makes human brains bigger

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Thursday February 19, 2015 03:37 PM

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By inserting bits of human DNA into mice, scientists were able to make their brains develop more rapidly and ultimately grow bigger in the womb. The study, published Thursday in Current Biology, suggests that the evolution of this gene may be one of the things that sets us apart from our close relatives in the primate world.

Human brains are unique, even when compared with our close genetic relatives, such as chimpanzees. Our brains are about three times heavier than those of our cousins, and are more complex and interconnected as well. It's generally accepted that these neurological differences are what allowed us to evolve the higher brain function that other primates lack. But just what genetic changes allowed humans to surpass chimps in the brain arena is one that's still being answered.

There are a lot of physical differences to examine more closely, but size is such a dramatic one that the authors of the new study chose to start there.

Using databases created by other labs, the Duke University scientists cross-checked areas of human DNA that had developed differences from chimp DNA with areas of DNA they expected to be important for gene regulation. Regulator genes help determine how other genes will express themselves, and the researchers suspected that some of these regulators might be making brain development more active in human embryos than in chimps.

They ended up focusing on a region called HARE5 (short for human-accelerated regulatory enhancer), which testing indicated had something to do with brain development. They suspected that the enhancer, which is found close to a molecular pathway important in brain development, might have changed in a way that influenced brain size in humans.

"We discovered that the human DNA sequence, which only had 16 changes in it compared to the chimp sequence, was being expressed differently in mice," said study author Debra Silver, an assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in the Duke University Medical School.

In fact, HARE5 was regulating how many neural stem cells the precursors of brain cells a mouse embryo could produce.

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