Correct. Changing your own work for personal or artistic or technical reasons is not censorship. It all depends on if it was done for moral reasons, ie the belief that the cut material is harmful to society instead of being just plain boring.

Yeah, I can’t imagine how she got dragged into this:

Correct, but not every act of censorship violates the first amendment. Many historically cited acts of censorship in this country were once or still legal.

What a twist!

I never got the “smokescreen” argument. How does the existence of a bunch of people demanding better journalistic disclosures make personal threats harder to detect? There’s nothing stopping Quinn from sharing any one of the hundreds of threats sent to her inbox. Except she will block you if you ask to see her…

It’s still a crime no matter what causes it and it’s one of the most despicable things a human being can be a part of.

Where does this definition come from? Serious question, WHO defines censorship as being exclusive to government? I’ve checked every authoritative source I could think of and none of them define it as such

None of that contradicts my post though. Alison has said the things in your post, and you might notice that those aren’t things people take issue with.

The article indicates it, and I don’t know why, because it’s wrong. Rapp has in several instances denounced laws against live-action child porn.

What if the people complaining about the FE localization, are in fact DIFFERENT from the people reporting Alison to human trafficking watch groups?

I think we’re in fact referring to two different groups of people.

She does. There’s been plenty of real victims of documented online harassment campaigns. None of them got any press before Gamergate, because they were all fat white guys with aspergers who’s suffering acted as a source of entertainment for trolls.

The initial targets of gamegate still get daily emails and harassment

That’s just plain false. Things such as the old Hollywood blacklists and the CCA have always been considered censorship by the academic community, despite never involving the government.

But boy, I bet lumping people upset about bad localizations with white supremacists will probably defuse the situation. Right?

Ah shoot, I was hoping “It’s been studied” was in reference to something. Keep in mind, when I reference sexualized characters in kids shows, I’m not referring to niche otaku products. I’m referring to the biggest franchises in Japan going back decades, such as One Piece and Dragonball. Things which aren’t exactly…

Do you have more info on the studies done on anime’s influence? They sound interesting

And what I’m trying to say is that the trend I’m seeing is a bunch of sexy mature stuff being part of rather otherwise tame games is a habit that Japan needs to get out of doing.

Okay so I have to argue it’s not that Japan has little crime, it just has that perception of low crime. Between how the police there don’t prosecute without a guarantee of a conviction, meaning anything that can’t be solved outright is just dropped, how rape is underreported due to the kind of victim shaming most…

And I can agree none of this is really causing harm, rather it’s still a disturbing notion that’s much too prevalent in the spread of the media. It’s not something that should be glorified, really.