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NEWS: Funimation Addresses Dance in the Vampire Bund Edits

ikillchicken wrote:

So basically, you're openly admitting to talking out both sides of your ass and deliberately trying to rile people up. Fine. Enjoy your trolling. I'll have no part in it.

Oh, ikillchicken. You've unrevealed my true, and dirty intentions. Plus 10 bonus attack power. Besides this is the last time you'll speak to me like this, understood? I never took the liberty of acting rudely towards you, and I expect the same.

I don't think he can understand stupidity.

Drunk_Samurai wrote:

I don't think he can understand stupidity.

Welcome to the forums! Please do read the rules before posting, otherwise you'll make yourself look like a fool, like you're doing right now.

You've already done that quite well for yourself by saying censorship isn't wrong.

My point has nothing really to due with the topic at hand. If you remember, it was a response to somebody who posed the question of whether or not viewing drawings could make you a pedo.

You and some other people seem to have this idea that we live in a libertarian paradise where anything goes. There are all kinds of limits on free speech - some defensible, some not. But if you consider the minor edits that Funi is doing on DitVB as "broad restrictions" then we don't have much common ground for discussion, that's for sure.

Censorship isn't always bad, your parents censor what you can and can't do, leading you on the right path. Forums offer a form of censoring of what is allowable and what isn't and in return it keeps out the idiots, jerks, and other riffraff. It's only when a line is crossed when censoring becomes wrong. And Funimation didn't cross that line.

I think you need to learn the difference between censorship and rules. Also yes they did.

I pity the Streaming/DVD reviewer Zac assigns to Bund.

I hope Brian doesn't have to answer any questions.

Oh, poor Erin with Shelf Life. Sad days to come.

ANN may just want to pretend Bund does not exist. Cause it will be a talkback cluster**** for a long time. You may want to treat it like a raving lunatic that smells like old cheese. Don't make eye contact and slowly back away...

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I think you need to learn the difference between censorship and rules. Also yes they did.

Rules are a form of censorship. Censoring is when someone wants to control what you read, write, say, or hear, and has the power to enforce their will on you.

This is a more nuanced conflict of interest that applies specially to media companies like Funimation that import content from overseas: While said company legally has the power to do whatever they like to the material they buy (eg WEP & Voltron) they don't necessarily have the right, especially when their stated reason for doing so is to protect their viewers from themselves. Funimation isn't violating anyone's right to free speech, but they are deliberately imposing an arbitrary standard of censorship on someone else's work, locking out (legal) access to the work's original form in the process, which is detestable just the same.

Hannish Lightning wrote:

Quote: I think you need to learn the difference between censorship and rules. Also yes they did. Rules are a form of censorship. Censoring is when someone wants to control what you read, write, say, or hear, and has the power to enforce their will on you.

Parents have a right to do so with their child if of minor age. A corporate entity does not.

Hon'ya-chan wrote:

Blood- wrote: By the way, posting a quote, a graphic and nothing else is lame.

Keep it up, chuckles. That's just the kind of deliberate trolling that could possibly get you tempbanned (assuming an admin actually sees it). And gosh, what an intellectual loss that would be.

You and some other people seem to have this idea that we live in a libertarian paradise where anything goes. There are all kinds of limits on free speech - some defensible, some not. But if you consider the minor edits that Funi is doing on DitVB as "broad restrictions" then we don't have much common ground for discussion, that's for sure.

I don't think you'll find any true fan who is happy about censoring any anime, but I'm genuinely puzzled as to why some of you can't at least acknowledge that Funi's fear of an adverse reaction in certain sectors to a completely uncensored version of Dance is warranted.

There is nothing "arbitrary" about their censorship. It's not like they woke up one morning and said to themselves, "Gee, how can we piss people off today?"

deliberately imposing

arbitrary standard