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Unnecessary Censorship - Avatar: The Last Airbender
Well, I felt like doing it so I did it. Here you go! I unnecessarily censored my favourite cartoon show of all time, I give you; "Unnecessary Censorship - Avatar: The Last Airbender". Avatar...

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Censorship BANS #39;The Xpose #39; from EXPOSING
Yo Yo Honey Singh Himesh Reshamiya #39;s The Xpose under censorship scruntiny for BOLD Content -- Sonali Raut #39;s transparent Saree Subscribe now to watch more of Bollywood Hangover Videos http://www....

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THOR: THE DARK WORLD | Unnecessary Censorship Recap | Censored Marvel Funniest / Best Moments
In anticipation of the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Avengers 2: Age of Ultron by Disney... I mean Marvel... let #39;s take a look back at a recap / synopsis of the 2013 Thor: the Dark World...

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Gang of 4: Wolfgang Halbig and the Sandy Hook Circus! Youtube Censorship!
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LISLE A Lisle native, museum curator and 22-year-old college student has joined forces with his North Central College professor to create an exhibit exploring the history of Chicago film censorship.

Brian Failing, a senior at North Central, cowrote an upcoming exhibit at the Lisle Station Museum with associate professor of speech communication and coordinator for the college's urban and suburban studies program, Steve Macek, called, "Banned in Chicago: Eight Decades of Film Censorship in the Windy City."

The exhibit is the result of research the two conducted for a book Macek is working on. Failing was Macek's research assistant over the course of two summers.

"He was very excited about the research we were doing on the history of film censorship in Chicago," Macek said. "He thought it would make a compelling exhibit."

Failing has worked at the museum since he was 15 years old, and took over as curator his senior year of high school.

"I thought (film censorship) was a topic that's really important and really interesting that I think a lot of people will like, because everyone likes stuff that has to do with films, movies and Hollywood," Failing said.

In 1907, Chicago became the first city in the country to create a local film censorship authority, Macek said. The city also had the longest-lasting such authority in the country it was dissolved in 1984 after funding for the agency stopped.

"When it was first created, the police chief the head of Chicago police was responsible for reviewing and licensing films," Macek said. "Any films that were amoral or obscene could be banned."

About a decade after the agency was created, Macek said the authority was delegated to a civilian board, which was usually chaired by a police officer. The other members of the board were often women.

"The thinking was that women had a stronger moral sense than men and were better able to determine what was suitable," Macek said.

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has hit out at a European ruling on the "right to be forgotten." Joi Ito/Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has hit out at a new European ruling forcing Google to edit or erase search results, calling it "wide-sweeping censorship."

Speaking to the BBC, Wales described the European Union Court of Justice's decision on Tuesday as "one of the most wide-sweeping internet censorship rulings that I've ever seen."

The ruling enshrines the "right to be forgotten", which allows individuals to request the removal of links to irrelevant or incorrect information about themselves. The ruling means that instead of trying to get an offending article, photo or online posting removed by whoever published it, the subject of that article or posting can contact Google and ask for the posting to be removed from search results.

But Wales is sceptical about the practicality of the ruling. "If you really dig into it, it doesn't make a lot of sense," he said. Users of the Internet can "complain about something and just say it's irrelevant, and Google has to make some kind of a determination about that. That's a very hard and difficult thing for Google to do, particularly if Google is at risk of being held legally liable if it gets it wrong in some way."

"If they have to start coping with everybody who whines about a picture they posted last week, it's going to be very difficult for Google," he added.

The ruling is designed to protect the privacy of the individual. The case came to the top European court following hundreds of cases regarding the right to be forgotten in Spain, including a complaint by a man claiming his privacy was infringed by a notice related to the repossession of his house.

The right to be forgotten is meant to protect, for example, an individual wrongly accused of a crime. Reports of the allegations are posted online and stay there, hanging around accusingly even if the person is later acquitted. Under the new laws, the person could ask Google to edit or remove links to the allegations.

But the decision could also be abused by people who want to cover up their misdeeds or indiscretions -- especially if they're in a position to afford lawyers.

Google said the European Court's decision was "disappointing", and is now taking time to "analyse the implications." But Jimmy Wales doesn't see much of a future for the ruling: "I suspect this isn't going to stand for very long," he said.

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