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"South Korea had a ban on most cultural products from Japan due to war crimes committed in World War II. " Isn't it appropriate to bring up Japanese occupation of Korea here? The current one seems more true to countries like China and Philippines.

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With the American Bully XL dog breed being banned as pets in the UK should a "Pets" or "Other" folder be added to the UK page?

Is there ANY proof that magical girl shows are banned in the Middle East? They don't promote Zionism. Madoka Magica for instance has a messianic message but not a Zionist one. Also, about Cardcaptor Sakura - I am aware that there are relationships between teachers and students in the series, and that is disgusting, but isn't the series extremely chaste about it?

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Just heard today that The Green Elephant was just banned in Russia for showing graphic violence, for — you guess it — potentially being harmful to minors; for those unaware: it's known for two things — the memes it produced, and huge amount of shock content.

But I'm not entirely sure wether it may be added right away or we have to wait a bit, so dropped it here first.

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The South Korea section says that the Wii U is banned in South Korea. This statement is quite false. Korean residents are still allowed to import Wii Us sold from another country into their homes, and numerous Korean electronics stores (both retail and online) have sold Japan-imported Wii U consoles and games (albeit obviously with Japanese text, not Korean) without any legal trouble. It is perfectly legal to sell and own a Wii U in South Korea.

I think it's only a matter of Nintendo Korea simply not bothering to distribute a Korean-localized version of the Wii U to the country, most likeky due to lackluster response and sales everywhere else, which is completely different from a government ban. Basically the same reason why the Virtual Boy wasn't released in Europe also. Plus, not only is the Wii U's successor the Nintendo Switch released in South Korea, several of its games in fact have recieved Korean translations as well.

If there are any sources that prove my claim wrong, please let me know!

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The link to the My Little Pony movie IMDB no longer has the "banned in South Korea" on it. Plus it's IMDB which is not hard to spread misinformation on, plus there are no other sources other than a Brony forum discussing it and concluding that it's more than likely to be false.

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I'm a russian. And I want to talk about banned things in Russia.

Well, in Russia only three anime series where banned: Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya (because of child pornography),The Saga of Tanya the Evil (rusophobia and nazism propaganda) and Tokyo Ghoul (cannibalism). All other anime including Death Note and Kono Suba are available legally in Russia via DVD and streaming services like Crunchyroll.

I know the story with Petersburg court "bans". They blocked other anime on pirated websites because it doesn't have 18+ rating. It even maded a huge moral panic in russian internet.

Also, Deviant Art is now available in Russia. It was blocked by Roskomnadzor only for temporary so DA staff could delete violated content which includes pedophilia and nazism propaganda.

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About the most recent additions to the Banned In Russia section (those about specific Anime series). As far as I'm aware, the bans were against specific sites, most (if not all) of them pirate ones, which host them without marking as 18+ content.

Do we have the confirmation that the series themselves were actually banned, instead of just getting the adults-only rating over another boogeyman of the day (currently it's anything even remotely suicide-related, like infamous "blue whale" panic)?

In particular, the January ban, which was rather hot topic back then, which was later quietly clarified as another conflict with another pirate site, which, obviously, doesn't care about rules since they're illegal anyway.

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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Rename, started by Randalf on Jun 16th 2010 at 7:24:02 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Ambiguous Name, started by Twentington on Jun 4th 2012 at 3:17:47 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Regarding some websites such as Google and Facebook being banned in China: After watching a video on why these are banned, I think it's also "We're going to ban these foreign web companies and start our own, with our ideals and our watch."

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I think that the whole Toys section should be deleted, as this trope is about moral panics, not safety concerns. Second opinion, anybody?

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• The Simpsons episode "Cape Feare" from season five was banned due to Bart (a child character) being targeted by a murderer, the "Up Late with McBain" sequence, which featured the show announcer dressed as in S.S. gear, and a woman's line at Sideshow Bob's parole hearing "No one who speaks German could be an evil man."^{The reason} Because Hitler spoke German, and he was "an evil man".

Unless someone has an actual source for this, I'll remove it because I have seen that episode on German TV multiple times. The episodes about nuclear incidents could also do with proof, but I can't delete them due to not remembering the last time I saw the episodes mentioned.

The section on Japan included a lot of purported examples that were not actually examples of works being "Banned in X," but were rather just examples of the distributor/publisher deciding that it would not sell the work in Japan. Some were explicitly marked as such, while some misleadingly implied the existence of an official ban. In either case, the examples were off-topic. For any given country, there are literally thousands of works published abroad every year that happen not to be translated and sold in that country; that doesn't make those thousands of works "banned" in that country. Yes, the movie and TV examples previously here may have been left out of Japanese distribution in many cases more deliberately than other works, but it still makes no sense to say that the publisher "banned" its own product; a "ban" implies some sort of external body making the prohibition, generally governmental. I've left the video game examples in, with some modification, as, though they are not subject to prohibition by the government, there is at least some organization besides just the publisher making the decision.

I've also added in true examples of "Banned in Japan," namely, Lady Chatterley and The Bells of Nagasaki. There are other examples, such as a local school board banning Barefoot Gen, which could probably be added, as well.

The entry saying "AliceSoft has banned the sale of Daiteikoku outside of Japan due to its political(ly incorrect) nature." was also completely off-topic. This is "Banned in China," not "Banned Everywhere Except China"! (And that's also another example of a "ban" that's not actually a ban.)

I checked the Japanese web site for The Simpsons Movie, and all the hands had the requisite four fingers, so editing of that trope does not seem to be universal, let alone there being any officially-imposed ban.

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There's more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_films

Should more of these folders be moved to subpages? Germany, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and the United States are about or almost as long as the China one, and could comfortably stand as pages on their own.

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I think Indonesian service provider didn't banned 4 chan, it's just some networking error or something. Considering how bad internet connection in Indonesia, we're not surprised. I think it also applies to Tvtropes (I mean I'm an Indonesia and I'm in Tvtropes)

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"You Tube was banned in September 2012 shortly after a debacle involving an anti-Islamic video which sparked riots in Egypt and Libya. "

Whether or not the video was the real reason for said riots is something that has become heavily politicized as of late; as of this particular date, some say the video was the cause, and some say it was not even a consideration. Perhaps an rewording edit to the effect of "...video has been blamed for riots in some areas..." would be in order? I figured it would be better to mention it here than risk starting an edit war.

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"The episode of Family Guy which promoted Microsoft Windows 7 was once banned from airing in the UK due to broadcast guidelines which banned all product placement until February 2011."

Could somebody edit that to mention the name of the episode? Also, I suspect the episode would either be still banned or censored on BBC Three, as they can't do product placement (advertising is banned on the BBC), although FX can show the episode intact.

This part from The Thorn:

Fortunately, it's merely a de facto ban, and merely a case of Keep Circulating the Tapes in action.

Doesn't "de facto" mean it wasn't banned by anyone, it's just treated as if it is?

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In 2012, Erykah Badu was banned from performing in Malaysia due to accidental publication of an image of her wearing, of all things, a temporary tattoo with the name of the Muslim god on it. If there is any proof that the MCMC is Too Dumb to Live, this is it* Firstly, it was a temporary tattoo. Secondly, the picture wasn't even meant for publication in Malaysia, the reporter stole the image off the Internets via a random Google images search .

To be fair for the MCMC, Muslims are incensed about this and pressured the government to ban the singer. Even if the tattoo is temporary and never meant to be published in Malaysia, to them it is a gross disrespect towards Islam anyway. They did the same with Elton John and Adam Lambert with no success.

• As part of the Pædo Hunt, there is a bill which, if passed, will plant an automatic R-18 rating (read: no one under 18 admitted) on anything that depicts a minor engaging in sex. Fortunately, there are a few qualifiers: the sex must be explicit and graphic, the minor must be stated to be such (not just look young), it only affects businesses rather than individual artists, and it will only apply in Tokyo. This has some information about the law, although it's in Japanese.
  • As of now, the bill was finally passed and signed into law. And since the bill itself wasn't already bad enough, its wording was changed to restrict depictions "promoting illegal or immoral sexual activity". This basically means they can restrict ANY sort of manga, anime etc. which show even the slightest hint of sexual undertones. Strangely enough photographic material isn't affected by this restriction, giving you the impression that this bill was solely created to piss off the Otaku fandom. WHAT THE HELL?!? Click here for further information. As you will notice when reading the comments, the Anime community isn't very pleased by this developement. It doesn't help that Ishihara is basically trolling the manga and anime industry in his latest interviews.
  • The bill also restricts any depictions of crime or encouragement thereof. Weapons, theft, consumption of alcohol or cigarettes etc., everything would have to be censored. So it would theoretically possible to restrict ANY shounen series, since they contain even the slightest bits of the things mentioned before most of the time.
    • The best the otaku nation, especially in Tokyo, can hope for is for the law to be tightened like the Coroners and Justice Act amendment was (see United Kingdom, below).
    • Maybe I had a bad source, but as I recall, there are two things that aren't mentioned about this law in the above posts: 1. There is mention in the legislation that artistic, etc. meaning/usage of restricted material of any covered material is taken into account when passing judgement (that is, if artistic grounds can be reasoned, there's less of a chance of restriction; blatant fanservice (already considered poor taste by many otaku, at least in certain circles, especially with underage subjects) doesn't get a free pass), and 2. There was preexisting legislation covering photographic material; this only covers animation because it wasn't taken into consideration in previous laws (the characters didn't exist, so no real apparently underage person was being exploited).
  • Update: As it seems, the whole thing is going to blow over. The various publishers and mangaka are boycotting the Tokyo Animation Fair, which is actually headed by Ishihara. Also, resistance is increasing, as the Blatant Lies that were spouted by Ishihara and his cronies have actually subsided, as people are, understandably, pissed off.

Look, regardless of your position on the subject, this has just turned into about five blogs. Someone re-enter this simply stating the facts of this bill and where the law applies.

And look at some of those potholes and tell me this isn't politically loaded. Censorship is bad, fine, I get it, but we don't need this monster.

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