Well I am at a loss to provide you the means to grasp my intent.
If you cannot understand that Ian's statement that what Capcon is doing is not a form of censorship and that people calling it censorship should learn the definition.
And my assertion that the definition is a text book example CENSORSHIP. /'d that Ian is the one who needs to learn the definition is to hard of a concept for you to grasp. Well I am sorry I don't know how to explain it at the level you would need.
Maybe you disagree with the "internets" definition of the word censorship?
Let's give you various definitions and you tell me how Capcom's decision to perform self censorship and you tell me how the use of the word censorship is incorrect. And YOU tell me what word best decries the actions that Capcom has taken on their IP.
censorship
Think you know censorship? Quiz yourself:
ASSESSMENT: 100 POINTS
Which of the following would most likely be considered censorship?
promoting a bestseller in a book store
editing a book for grammatical errors
banning a book from being taught in school
writing a book containing controversial content
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Censorship blocks something from being read, heard, or seen. If you've ever heard the sound of bleeping when someone is speaking on television, that's censorship.
Censorship
1. The denial of freedom of speech or freedom of the press.
2. The review of books, movies, etc., to prohibit publication and distribution, usually for reasons of morality or state security.
--Oran's Dictionary of Law
Censorship: official restriction of any expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order.
--Encyclopedia.Com
Censorship - the prevention of publication, transmission, or exhibition of material considered undesirable for the general public to possess or be exposed to.
--Fast Times' Political Dictionary (Fast Times is "a nonpartisan publication on contemporary world affairs & media with no political, ideological, or religious affiliation of any kind.")
Censorship: the cyclical suppression, banning, expurgation, or editing by an individual, institution, group or government that enforce or influence its decision against members of the public -- of any written or pictorial materials which that individual, institution, group or government deems obscene and "utterly" without redeeming social value," as determined by "contemporary community standards."
--Chuck Stone, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina
