Suppressing speech that’s wrong-headed and hateful is like curing global warming by breaking the thermometers.
Jonathan Rauch, So To Speak, June 21, 2016
Tag: Censorship
The Arc of Internet Censorship
But the arc of internet sex censorship is long, and it bends as far away from justice (and reason) as possible.
Violet Blue, The Internet War on Sex Is Here, December 7, 2018.
World War II Propaganda Poster: Ten Years Ago The Nazis Burned These Books
This poster was released by the United States Office of War Information in 1943 (from the University of North Texas archives). The National Archives has an early draft version of the poster.
German Steam Store Removes 27 Games
Neowin reports that the German Steam store has apparently removed 27 games,
Although Valve hasn’t issued an official statement yet, it seems likely that the games were pulled by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons in Germany due to most of the games allegedly appearing on the “The List of Media Harmful to Young People”, also known as “The Index”.
These are the games allegedly pulled from sale in Germany:
- Aliens versus Predator Classic
- Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
- Blood: One Unit Whole Blood
- Blood II: The Chosen + Expansion
- BloodRayne
- BloodRayne 2
- Carmageddon Max Pack
- Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now
- Harvester
- Kingpin — Life of Crime
- NAM
- Painkiller: Black Edition
- Painkiller Hell & Damnation
- Painkiller Overdose
- Postal
- Postal 2
- Postal 3
- POSTAL Redux
- Rise of the Triad
- Rise of the Triad: Dark War
- Rune Classic
- Shadow Warrior Classic Redux
- SiN Episodes: Emergence
- Star Wars Dark Forces
- The Chaos Engine
- TimeShift
- UberSoldier II