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Banned in China

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Banned in China	comment	Sometimes the government can outright ban a work from being consumed in their country. It usually happens in more authoritarian countries whose governments try to micromanage what their citizens can see. But even in more liberal countries, public pressure on retailers or broadcasters can lead to an effective ban on the work (although sometimes — but not always — you can get around it by importing it from somewhere else). Works that get this treatment tend to be excessively violent or sexual in nature, feature content that is considered "taboo" locally, criticize or mock the country or its government, inflame national or ethnic tensions, or otherwise depict behavior that might undermine the government's authority. The more authoritarian and/or conservative the government, the more works get censored. Even comparatively liberal countries have standards about what can be shown in works, which tends to affect the importation of erotica the most. This kind of thing is often associated with the government of the People's Republic of China, hence the name "Banned in China". But the trope name is actually a modern twist on the older term, "Banned in Boston" — the city was once a bastion of Moral Guardians, particularly given the Puritan and Catholic influence, and a local "benevolent group" known as the Watch and Ward Society held immense sway over what could be displayed or sold in the city. Paradoxically, a ban in Boston could make a work more marketable elsewhere. Nowadays, Boston is considered a bastion of liberal politics in the US, and it lost its puritanical reputation in the 1970s. China has taken up the city's mantle, given its frequent (and often arbitrary) censorship of anything it finds contrary to government policy or "harmful to the Chinese youth". As Hollywood focuses on overseas markets, they often have to water down their movies for China and other culturally conservative countries. In Real Life this is an Enforced Trope. Compare New Media Are Evil, No Swastikas, Media Watchdog, Moral Guardians, and Values Dissonance. Bowdlerization can happen if the government requires substantial content editing before allowing the work to be imported. See Persona Non Grata for when people are banned from certain places.
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Banned in China / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Episodes centering around Finn losing his arm were refused broadcast by Cartoon Network in Poland due to their disturbing content.
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Banned in China / int_13a61240	comment	As with Singapore, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was only allowed to be shown in the country if a same-sex kiss was edited out.
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Banned in China / int_16d191f7	comment	Homefront is obviously banned for depicting both Koreas united under Northern rule.
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Banned in China / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony was banned most likely due to featuring murders by high schoolers after a case of a 17-year old girl killing and dismembering an 8-year old girl in that country. Because the criminal was revealed to have been a regular participant of roleplaying communities (and Danganronpa was pretty big in the South Korean roleplaying scene), she was thought to have copied the game. In truth, she had never participated in roleplaying Danganronpa specifically, but a spokesperson of the South Korean ratings board committee has stated that V3 will remain banned because "[They have] determined that the game had crossed the line where it was difficult to allow this in society".
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Banned in China / int_1b021fcb	comment	Tokyo Ghoul was banned due to the ghouls committing cannibalism. It is worth noting that before the banning of anime, the Tokyo Ghoul fandom in Russia was infamous for its toxicity, which gave rise to the Dead Inside subculture. Several Tokyo Ghoul fans are edgy teenagers known on the Russian Internet for romanticizing maniacs and suicide, for which they are often ridiculed in memes.
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Banned in China / int_1bd4bab6	comment	Alix's "La Griffe noire" and "Les LÃ©gions perdues" were seen as references to the Algerian War.
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Banned in China / int_1c7f6112	comment	The Devils didn't have a chance in Italy with its blasphemous content and was banned.
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Banned in China / int_1e533773	comment	Narrowly averted: Beauty and the Beast was almost banned due to Adaptational Sexuality in a family film (Word of Saint Paul is that LeFou is gay in the Live-Action Adaptation of Disney's Renaissance classic). The government has since approved of the screening of the film, albeit with a 16+ rating.
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Banned in China / int_1f8b8b9c	comment	In Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, The Dictator was removed from the French, German, and Hebrew dub due to Those Wacky Nazis and strict laws in Germany about references to the Nazi regime and to avoid insulting Israelis and Holocaust survivors after World War II. All swastikas are also replaced with red X's. Additionally, all "third reich" references are removed. Even the entire scenes with the dictator were removed in Toonami and Nicktoons USA airings of the film for the reason above.
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Banned in China / int_245ad3f7	comment	In 2016, the 2006 North Korean film The Schoolgirl's Diary was apparently banned in its homeland because the government deemed it "subversive". However, it has been reaired on North Korean television starting in 2020, meaning the ban was either temporary or just a hoax.
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Banned in China / int_24740992	comment	All films starring Elvis Presley were banned in Mexico between 1960 and 1971 after riots broke out at Las Americas in Mexico City during screenings of King Creole and G.I. Blues.
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Banned in China / int_252c4704	comment	Many movies from the Czechoslovak New Wave got banned, including The Cremator and some of the works of VÄ›ra ChytilovÃ¡.
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Banned in China / int_2593d5ed	comment	The second book in ''The Space Odyssey Series;; by Arthur C. Clarke, was banned mid-serialisation in 1984 after it emerged that a number of characters were named after Soviet dissidents.
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Banned in China / int_2594b808	comment	Several right-wing groups have tried to ban Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 in some parts of Mexico because the bad guys depicted are Mexican even though they are rebels against the Mexican government and the players end up teaming up with Mexican loyalists.
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Banned in China / int_25c5223f	comment	Savage Man, Savage Beast was banned in Australia and Finland for containing actual scenes of animal cruelty and human deaths. Australia eventually permitted the release of a censored version with a R18+ rating. The uncensored version was also immediately banned in the UK, and nearly ten minutes' worth of footage had to be removed before it could be passed (with an X rating) by the BBFC.
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Banned in China / int_25fff573	comment	The Turner Diaries is banned in Austria, Canada, France, and Germany for its extremely racist content. Digital and physical copies were also pulled from Amazon following the 2021 US Capitol attack.
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Banned in China / int_261c8d3f	comment	Regarding The Simpsons, Ukraine didn't find Homer the incompetent nuclear safety inspector very funny due to the Chernobyl disaster. In 2009, The Simpsons stopped airing on the Ukrainian channel M1. Although people have speculated that the show was unofficially banned in the country, the official reason was that the channel's rights to the series had expired. A year later, the show returned on different Ukrainian channels until 2021.
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Banned in China / int_283a2ee	comment	Like in China, many websites are blocked in Singapore by the Media Development Authority. The official websites of publications like Playboy and Penthouse are blocked, as well as "lifestyle sites" that condone homosexuality. Many pornographic video streaming tube sites, in particular anything under the new ".xxx" and ".sex" domain addresses being assigned to NSFW websites, are blocked as well. As of late, though, the government has been considering lifting the ban (at least partially) in favor of end-user or service-provider based web filters. A Google Chrome extension can work around it anyway.
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Banned in China / int_28a0fe9f	comment	The Saga of Tanya the Evil was banned because the main character is a Villain Protagonist in a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Nazi Germany.
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Banned in China / int_28ccdd97	comment	"The Time Trap" from Blake and Mortimer has been banned.
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Banned in China / int_2930d0c4	comment	Battlefield 3 and ARMA 3 are banned in Iran for portraying Iran as one of the primary antagonists.
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Banned in China / int_29ae079f	comment	To Sir, with Love, a 1967 film about a black Guyanese teacher (played by Sidney Poitier) living in England and dealing with white students, was banned during The Apartheid Era. Since then, it's been given an A (for "all ages") rating.
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Banned in China / int_2a893b9b	comment	Counter-Strike was briefly banned from Brazil in 2008 because of a popular map mod called â€œRioâ€�, modeled loosely after the city of Rio de Janeiro. Authorities claimed that the map was part of the story and involved the player, with a team of drug dealers, holding UN peacekeepers hostage and shooting Brazilian military police. This ignores the fact that (a) the map is not part of the game at all, but rather an unofficial third-party created mod, which is not controlled by the game; (b) you can play as either side; and (c) the "drug dealers" are really international terrorists, and the "military police" is some generic counter-terrorist force. When the government realized this a year later (due largely to public outcry), it lifted the ban.
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Banned in China / int_2b4ed8de	comment	Yo-kai Watch: While the second and third seasons weren't dubbed at all, the first also has three banned episodes refused broadcast by Cartoon Network due to (allegedly) inappropriate content. Episode 12 centers around Cheeksqueek, a Yo-kai with a butt-shaped face who makes the others fart. Episode 71 introduces Snottle, a Yo-kai who makes people stick their fingers in their nose. Episode 27 also didn't air.
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Banned in China / int_2b67786e	comment	Frankenstein (1931) was submitted for release and banned at least four separate times during the 1930s for its horroristic content, alongside a variety of other American horror pictures. By the late 30s and early 40s however, regional film theaters were allowed to screen them as limited showings, and most of the classic Universal Horror films were finally granted a nationwide DVD release in 2004.
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Banned in China / int_2b727723	comment	Reddit has been banned since 2016, citing several NSFW, misinformative, and malicious content there. The government promises to unblock Reddit if they register to the new policy detailed in "General" above.
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Banned in China / int_2ec27115	comment	Three Teen Titans Go! episodes are banned from the Asian feed of Cartoon Network for numerous reasons: "The Chaff" was banned due to the episode containing multiple instances of Toilet Humor, including a giant butt and the ending scene where Beast Boy and Cyborg sing about poop. "Butt Atoms" was banned because of excessive Toilet Humor. "Lucky Stars" was banned due to the plot revolving around superstitions related to romance.
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Banned in China / int_2fc254ae	comment	The video game of the 2003 The Cat in the Hat film was banned in Brazil because of copyright issues regarding the film.
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Banned in China / int_304d4028	comment	The Spirou & Fantasio album "The Dictator and the Mushroom" (1956) was banned under Francisco Franco's regime for poking fun at dictators.
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Banned in China / int_31a93411	comment	The extremely graphic and disturbing nature of A Serbian Film resulted in the movie being banned in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Norway. It was also temporarily banned in Brazil and Spain until it was eventually released with some cuts made to the film to excise the more disgusting scenes.
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Banned in China / int_32a74a8a	comment	The 2022 adaptation of Death on the Nile is banned in Kuwait, Lebanon, and Tunisia because a major character is played by Gal Gadot, who is Israeli and supports the IDF (being a former IDF soldier herself).
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Banned in China / int_33155c18	comment	The original Texas Chain Saw Massacre has been banned in various countries for its intense violence. Notable countries include Australia, Brazil, Chile, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and West Germany. It was eventually released uncensored in Australia and the United Kingdom. Like with Evil Dead it was never part of the Video Nasties list as popularly believed, as it was banned before the list was created.
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Banned in China / int_334f9ddc	comment	Injustice: Gods Among Us was almost banned... until the title change to Injustice: Heroes Among Us; then, it was allowed to be released.
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Banned in China / int_3490e40d	comment	Last Tango in Paris was banned on initial release in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, and Venezuela for strong sexual content and its graphic depiction of sexual violence. It was unbanned in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain, and Portugal following the ends of their respective military dictatorships, and Italy allowed for its release in 1986. The Canadian province of Nova Scotia banned it, leading to the landmark Nova Scotia (Board of Censors) v McNeil decision, which ruled that individual provinces had the right to censor films.
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Banned in China / int_3504b58e	comment	Mortal Kombat 11 was banned, although not publicly, for over-the-top gory violence and communist references. Most likely the latter, as the previous Mortal Kombat games and the mobile game isn't banned.
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Banned in China / int_354dccd1	comment	PokÃ©mon Masters is unavailable to download in the Netherlands due to featuring Loot Box mechanics. The game does divulge the probability chances of unlocking certain characters and allows the user to place a hard cap on how much premium currency can be purchased in a specific time-frame, but none of that matters.
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Banned in China / int_36065097	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_36065097	comment	The Hunger Games was delayed indefinitely from its supposed 30 March 2012 release in Vietnam. Officially, the ban was for showing youth violence, though it has probably has more to do with the country not being happy with a film that shows youngsters fighting back against a totalitarian state.
Banned in China / int_36065097	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_36065097	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hunger Games	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_36065097
Banned in China / int_36795c0f	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_36795c0f	comment	Falling Down was banned due to its negative portrayal of Koreans (it didn't help that its premiere in the United States was one year after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, in which Koreans were targeted).
Banned in China / int_36795c0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_36795c0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Falling Down	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_36795c0f
Banned in China / int_36acc21e	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_36acc21e	comment	The Battleship Potemkin was banned in Finland, France, Nazi Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom at various points for fears it would spark a communist revolution.
Banned in China / int_36acc21e	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_36acc21e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Battleship Potemkin	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_36acc21e
Banned in China / int_36d59a47	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_36d59a47	comment	The Satanic Verses was so notoriously controversial for its blasphemous depiction of The Prophet Muhammad, that it was banned in over 15 countries due to its offensiveness to Muslims.
Banned in China / int_36d59a47	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_36d59a47	featureConfidence	1.0
The Satanic Verses	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_36d59a47
Banned in China / int_38c87187	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_38c87187	comment	Zach Weinersmith's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has been banned in Indonesia since at least 2016, for unknown reasons.
Banned in China / int_38c87187	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_38c87187	featureConfidence	1.0
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_38c87187
Banned in China / int_399699b9	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_399699b9	comment	The Australian film Talk to Me was banned, not for its plot (teenagers playing at demonic possession), but over cast member Zoe Terakes, who is non-binary and transmasculine. Their character's gender identity is not mentioned in the film.
Banned in China / int_399699b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_399699b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Talk to Me	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_399699b9
Banned in China / int_39c15180	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_39c15180	comment	Angels & Demons was banned in the country for being deemed critical of the Catholic Church (the country had previously banned the movie's predecessor The Da Vinci Code for the same reason).
Banned in China / int_39c15180	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_39c15180	featureConfidence	1.0
Angels & Demons	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_39c15180
Banned in China / int_3aad8fa	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_3aad8fa	comment	Luck be a Landlord is banned from the Google Play Store in the UAE, Algeria, Iran, Jordan, South Korea, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen for violating their gambling policies. The ban in South Korea was then lifted on January 22, 2024.
Banned in China / int_3aad8fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_3aad8fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Luck be a Landlord (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_3aad8fa
Banned in China / int_3c1f955d	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_3c1f955d	comment	Yandere Simulator is banned.
Banned in China / int_3c1f955d	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_3c1f955d	featureConfidence	1.0
Yandere Simulator (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_3c1f955d
Banned in China / int_3c7b5d43	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_3c7b5d43	comment	Simply visiting Crimea without permission from the Ukrainian government can also get an actor blacklisted, which usually leads to parts of their filmography getting banned. That way, movies like Machete, Film/8FirstDates and Les Enfants De Timpelbach got banned (the offending actors are Steven Seagal, Yekaterina Varnava and GÃ©rard Depardieu, respectively)
Banned in China / int_3c7b5d43	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_3c7b5d43	featureConfidence	1.0
Machete	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_3c7b5d43
Banned in China / int_3c7d2003	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_3c7d2003	comment	The first Mad Max film was initially banned for four years, meaning that it was shown later than its sequel The Road Warrior, owing to sensitivities over a real-life gang incident in the late 1970s that paralleled the "Goose is cooked" scene.
Banned in China / int_3c7d2003	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_3c7d2003	featureConfidence	1.0
Mad Max	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_3c7d2003
Banned in China / int_3d472ec3	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_3d472ec3	comment	'Don't Stop Me Now' was deemed inappropriate for minors because of the lyrics 'I'm floating around in ecstacy', and 'I'm a sex machine ready to reload'. The song was allowed to be played on radio after the box office success of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody but was still banned from television.
Banned in China / int_3d472ec3	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_3d472ec3	featureConfidence	1.0
Bohemian Rhapsody	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_3d472ec3
Banned in China / int_3eb3a36f	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_3eb3a36f	comment	Assassination Classroom has been banned in China in 2015, probably due to its depiction of violence, especially gun violence and towards teachers. The manga series has also been removed from some US school libraries after a series of complaints from Moral Guardians over its content.
Banned in China / int_3eb3a36f	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_3eb3a36f	featureConfidence	1.0
Assassination Classroom (Manga)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_3eb3a36f
Banned in China / int_409683e7	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_409683e7	comment	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was banned in Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE because of a transgender pride flag with the words "Protect Trans Kids" written on it hanging in Gwen's bedroom in one scene.
Banned in China / int_409683e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_409683e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_409683e7
Banned in China / int_40f118dc	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_40f118dc	comment	The 2010 re-release of I Spit on Your Grave was banned.
Banned in China / int_40f118dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_40f118dc	featureConfidence	1.0
I Spit on Your Grave	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_40f118dc
Banned in China / int_40fe09b5	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_40fe09b5	comment	The live-action adaptation of Ichi the Killer is banned outright in Norway and Malaysia, and distribution is prohibited in Germany, for its extreme violence. It was refused classification by the BBFC, necessitating a censored version that cut over three minutes for it to be released in the UK. The Hong Kong version also removed close to 17 minutes of film.
Banned in China / int_40fe09b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_40fe09b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Ichi the Killer (Manga)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_40fe09b5
Banned in China / int_410f0996	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_410f0996	comment	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was banned in Vietnam, though the decision was ultimately made by Sony's international distribution company, who protested Vietnam's censors cutting out the nude scenes.
Banned in China / int_410f0996	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_410f0996	featureConfidence	1.0
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_410f0996
Banned in China / int_412f0390	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_412f0390	comment	The Evil Dead was banned in Iceland, Ireland, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and West Germany for its extreme violence and gore. It was eventually released uncensored in 2001 in the UK. Contrary to popular belief, it was never part of the Video Nasties list.
Banned in China / int_412f0390	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_412f0390	featureConfidence	1.0
The Evil Dead (1981)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_412f0390
Banned in China / int_4166c3bd	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4166c3bd	comment	In 2015, in retaliation for the Crimean crisis, the Ukrainian government began to blacklist Russian artists who supported the annexation of Crimea by Russia from entering the country and restricting new films featuring blacklisted actors from being exhibited in the country. Although older films are not covered by this policy, the negative stigma prompted a Ukrainian television network to end its annual tradition of airing The Irony of Fate on New Year's Eve because it contained a blacklisted actress (Valentina Talyzina).
Banned in China / int_4166c3bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4166c3bd	featureConfidence	1.0
The Irony of Fate	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4166c3bd
Banned in China / int_4320d945	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4320d945	comment	The Wrestler was considered Western propaganda, likely because of The Ram's in-ring nemesis being named the Ayatollah.
Banned in China / int_4320d945	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4320d945	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wrestler	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4320d945
Banned in China / int_4388e597	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4388e597	comment	The song "One Night in Bangkok" from the musical Chess is banned, probably due to its description of Bangkok as a "crowded, polluted, stinking town" that's only good for sex tourism. Despite this, it gets frequent play there.
Banned in China / int_4388e597	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4388e597	featureConfidence	1.0
Chess (Theatre)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4388e597
Banned in China / int_4397c9bd	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4397c9bd	comment	The Green Elephant was banned from mainstream distribution circuits in its home country not just because of its intense and violent themes such as humiliation, army violence, suicide and coprophilia, but because of its showing these things in close up. Despite that, the film has become a Cult Classic among Russian internet users. The film was eventually banned as a whole in its home country in 2022.
Banned in China / int_4397c9bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4397c9bd	featureConfidence	1.0
The Green Elephant	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4397c9bd
Banned in China / int_43f992fb	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_43f992fb	comment	Blue Jasmine by Woody Allen is banned because of several scenes where people smoke. In India, every time a character smokes, it must either be digitally removed or be accompanied with a scrolling text PSA explaining that smoking is bad. Allen refused to have his film altered in this way and chose simply not to release it in India.
Banned in China / int_43f992fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_43f992fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Blue Jasmine	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_43f992fb
Banned in China / int_4469464a	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4469464a	comment	Amanda Knox's family managed to get Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy banned in Italy on the belief that it had the potential to taint Knox's appeals. It certainly might have helped Knox get back home to Seattle several months after the trial. The movie managed to be aired in Italy in December 2012.
Banned in China / int_4469464a	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4469464a	featureConfidence	1.0
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4469464a
Banned in China / int_4584d69e	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4584d69e	comment	Burma banned Rambo IV. Rebel factions then started watching it. Funny how these things turn out. The ban was not surprising considering that the film portrays the Burmese government as an oppressive dictatorship, which, in real life, it was.
Banned in China / int_4584d69e	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4584d69e	featureConfidence	1.0
Rambo IV	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4584d69e
Banned in China / int_45a4c7dd	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_45a4c7dd	comment	Tropic of Cancer was banned in Australia, Canada, Finland, South Africa, and the United Kingdom for its explicit sexual content. The book was also banned in the United States for over 30 years, until the Supreme Court ruled in 1964 that it was not obscene.
Banned in China / int_45a4c7dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_45a4c7dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Tropic of Cancer	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_45a4c7dd
Banned in China / int_45b21df3	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_45b21df3	comment	Monty Python's Life of Brian was banned in Ireland and Norway, the former from 1979 until 1987 and the latter for just one year, due to its satire of early Christianity. As a result, the movie was marketed in Sweden with the Tag Line "The film so funny it was banned in Norway!"
Banned in China / int_45b21df3	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_45b21df3	featureConfidence	1.0
Monty Python's Life of Brian	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_45b21df3
Banned in China / int_46a870a6	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_46a870a6	comment	Puni Puni Poemy was classified as "objectionable material" on the grounds that it depicted sexual exploitation of minors. However, in 2021 the ban was reversed with the show reclassified as R16.
Banned in China / int_46a870a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_46a870a6	featureConfidence	1.0
PuniPuniPoemy	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_46a870a6
Banned in China / int_49a885c8	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_49a885c8	comment	Final Fantasy XVI is banned in Saudi Arabia, and the only official explanation given by the country's General Commission for Audiovisual Media is that Square Enix refused to make the necessary modifications to the game for it to be approved, without actually specifying what those modifications actually are. The best guess anyone's got is that it's because of an onscreen kiss between two male characters and some material in the game's Lore Codex that specifically refers to them as "lovers".
Banned in China / int_49a885c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_49a885c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy XVI (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_49a885c8
Banned in China / int_4a0e0645	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4a0e0645	comment	The Death of Stalin has its certification hastily revoked due to accusations of extremism, effectively banning the film in Russia. Before that, movies "mocking" Soviet history and World War II, like Child 44, usually were denied certification at all, while this one had received certification (which meant the movie was watched by culture ministry), had a release date and all necessary papers on hands until the movie was screened in the State Duma days before the official premiere. Many deputies threw a public tantrum afterwards, which immediately resulted in controversy, backlash and ended with a certificate revocation. One small cinema dared to show it anyway (since the certificate withdrawal is, once again, almost unprecedented) and ended up with a huge fine and the threat of closure.
Banned in China / int_4a0e0645	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4a0e0645	featureConfidence	1.0
The Death of Stalin	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4a0e0645
Banned in China / int_4a453e0d	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4a453e0d	comment	One of the films remained banned in Cuba to date is Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, which the Cuban censorship board refused classfication due to its negative portrayal of the country.
Banned in China / int_4a453e0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4a453e0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4a453e0d
Banned in China / int_4c467f43	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4c467f43	comment	The 1948 film of Oliver Twist was banned in Israel because it was felt Alec Guinness's Fagin was an anti-Semitic stereotype. It was banned in Egypt because they felt Fagin was portrayed sympathetically.
Banned in China / int_4c467f43	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4c467f43	featureConfidence	1.0
Oliver Twist	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4c467f43
Banned in China / int_4d1a10fe	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4d1a10fe	comment	The video for Orange Caramelâ€™s popular song â€œCatallenaâ€� was banned on broadcast channels due to the members portraying different kinds of sushi- not, as one may expect, due to portraying a Japanese dish, but because it â€œdevalued human livesâ€�.
Banned in China / int_4d1a10fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4d1a10fe	featureConfidence	1.0
OrangeCaramel	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4d1a10fe
Banned in China / int_4f7b790	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4f7b790	comment	Eternals is banned in the Gulf States due to containing many sexually intimate scenes, including a scene where Phastos kisses his husband, and its plot centering around deities.
Banned in China / int_4f7b790	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4f7b790	featureConfidence	1.0
Eternals	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4f7b790
Banned in China / int_4f89d268	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4f89d268	comment	PokÃ©mon GO was banned in Iran, and several provinces in the Philippines for security reasons and (in the case of the Philippines) negative press attention the pre-release got. Contrary to popular belief tho, the game was never banned in Malaysia (it only appeared that way due to Late Export for You owing to Niantic's being secretive of their schedule), although the government has made it clear that government officials and military personnel are not allowed to play the game.
Banned in China / int_4f89d268	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4f89d268	featureConfidence	1.0
Pokémon GO (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4f89d268
Banned in China / int_4fd71a2c	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_4fd71a2c	comment	Euro Trip was banned due to graphic sexual content.
Banned in China / int_4fd71a2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_4fd71a2c	featureConfidence	1.0
EuroTrip	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_4fd71a2c
Banned in China / int_5022a2c4	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_5022a2c4	comment	The Xena: Warrior Princess episode The Way is banned in the country for its depiction of Hindi deites which is frowned upon with the faithful in general.
Banned in China / int_5022a2c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_5022a2c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Xena: Warrior Princess	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_5022a2c4
Banned in China / int_503d3d54	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_503d3d54	comment	The Rocky Horror Picture Show was banned due to its risque content and endorsement of gender nonconformity.
Banned in China / int_503d3d54	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_503d3d54	featureConfidence	1.0
The Rocky Horror Picture Show	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_503d3d54
Banned in China / int_5132212e	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_5132212e	comment	Black Beauty was formerly banned in South Africa. Having the words "black" and "beauty" in the title was evidently a no-no during apartheid, despite the fact that "Black Beauty" is the name of a horse.
Banned in China / int_5132212e	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_5132212e	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Beauty	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_5132212e
Banned in China / int_51426d5	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_51426d5	comment	Padmaavat is banned in Malaysia. It was also banned in four Indian states until the Supreme Court of India overruled the ban.
Banned in China / int_51426d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_51426d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Padmaavat	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_51426d5
Banned in China / int_518b056d	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_518b056d	comment	The film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code is banned in Egypt, parts of India, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, and by the Vatican because its content was deemed blasphemous. Conservative groups in the Philippines tried to pressure the government to ban it, but only succeeded in banning it in Manilia. SM Supermalls, the largest chain of shopping malls in the country, also prohibited the showing of movie in all of their theaters, but only because it was rated R18.
Banned in China / int_518b056d	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_518b056d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_518b056d
Banned in China / int_524e2e3b	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_524e2e3b	comment	There is an urban legend about Donald Duck being banned in Finland, because he does not wear pants. It's not true, and it's particularly amusing because Finland is so liberal with actual nudity that it could be the least likely country in the world to enact such a ban. As Snopes details, the legend derives from a complete misunderstanding of a 1977 political blunder; Helsinki councilman Markku Holopainen had proposed that the financially troubled city stop buying Donald Duck comics for youth centres, but when he ran for Parliament the next year, his opponent spun this into trying to "ban" Donald Duck (and went on to beat him in the election). Some Finns did write letters to the Donald Duck magazine on the subject decades earlier, but the magazine put it to rest by publishing a picture of a ridiculous-looking duck with pants.
Banned in China / int_524e2e3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_524e2e3b	featureConfidence	1.0
Donald Duck	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_524e2e3b
Banned in China / int_538f2d38	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_538f2d38	comment	Caligula was banned on initial release in Australia, Canada (except in Quebec, where it was rated 18+), Iceland, and the United Kingdom for its explicit sexual content. The uncut version was eventually rated by the BBFC in 2008. Various cities in the United States also unsuccessfully tried to block its distribution.
Banned in China / int_538f2d38	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_538f2d38	featureConfidence	1.0
Caligula	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_538f2d38
Banned in China / int_53ea061	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_53ea061	comment	Back in 1930, the Disney cartoon The Skeleton Dance was banned for being too "macabre". This ban has since been rescinded entirely.
Banned in China / int_53ea061	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_53ea061	featureConfidence	1.0
The Skeleton Dance	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_53ea061
Banned in China / int_5425ce75	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_5425ce75	comment	The entire Grand Theft Auto series was banned in 2008, after a murder/robber confessed to being a fan of GTA IV after robbing and killing a taxi driver. This affected subsequent releases such as Chinatown Wars and Grand Theft Auto V, though it didn't affect digital sales, making it a loophole.
Banned in China / int_5425ce75	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_5425ce75	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_5425ce75
Banned in China / int_54f7b633	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_54f7b633	comment	BrÃ¼no (2009), Saw 3D, Land of the Dead, Hostel Part II, and The Simpsons were (or still are) at one point banned in Ukraine for violence (Saw 3D, Land of the Dead, and Hostel: Part II), sexual content considered deviant by the Ukrainian government (Bruno), and subversive content/humor (Bruno and The Simpsons), respectively. Additionally, Ukraine was once threatening to ban SpongeBob SquarePants, out of the belief that it promotes homosexuality (the allegation of the show promoting homosexuality is a myth propagated by loony fans and conservative religious groups — at least in America).
Banned in China / int_54f7b633	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_54f7b633	featureConfidence	1.0
Brüno (2009)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_54f7b633
Banned in China / int_55c5a085	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_55c5a085	comment	Mazinger Z was aired in 1978 and it was pulled out off the air at January of 1979 due to the violent content prevalent in the show. Only thirty-three random episodes had been dubbed — one of which never even aired. It was not until 1993 that Spanish fans were able to watch the whole dubbed series.
Banned in China / int_55c5a085	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_55c5a085	featureConfidence	1.0
Mazinger Z	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_55c5a085
Banned in China / int_56a63131	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_56a63131	comment	The Simpsons Movie was banned in Burma mostly because most of the characters' skin is yellow, and yellow and red were the colors of the main political opposition party, the NLD, as well as the skin being perceived as a stereotype of Asians having bright yellow skin.
Banned in China / int_56a63131	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_56a63131	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons Movie	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_56a63131
Banned in China / int_59da62aa	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas was banned because of the presence of casinos (including the Betting Mini-Game) and brothels (including strippers and Optional Sexual Encounter, although the latter case is fade to black), both are plot important places. However, the digital versions aren't banned.
Banned in China / int_59da62aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_59da62aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_59da62aa
Banned in China / int_5a23074a	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_5a23074a	comment	Sophie's Choice was banned in South Africa and the author's native Poland for its frank depiction of Polish antisemitism, and in Lebanon for its positive portrayal of Jewish characters.
Banned in China / int_5a23074a	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_5a23074a	featureConfidence	1.0
Sophie's Choice	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_5a23074a
Banned in China / int_5ae0bec6	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_5ae0bec6	comment	Due to the country's limited rights for women, WWE's events in the country (i.e. Greatest Royal Rumble) cannot include female wrestlers. Said shows were always about the money, however.
Banned in China / int_5ae0bec6	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_5ae0bec6	featureConfidence	1.0
WWE (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_5ae0bec6
Banned in China / int_5c07d6ab	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_5c07d6ab	comment	Saints Row: The Third is banned likely due to the game's mass amount of sexual content and drinking featured in the game.
Banned in China / int_5c07d6ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_5c07d6ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_5c07d6ab
Banned in China / int_5d0d1463	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_5d0d1463	comment	The French play The Marriage of Figaro was banned by Emperor Joseph due to its political subject matter and fears of a copycat unrest similar to that which would later claim the life of his sister. Contrary to popular belief, though, he approved Mozart's opera adaptation from the start, as being a self-admitted apolitical he had already removed the offending material.
Banned in China / int_5d0d1463	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_5d0d1463	featureConfidence	1.0
The Marriage of Figaro (Theatre)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_5d0d1463
Banned in China / int_5ebd9db6	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_5ebd9db6	comment	The Arabic dub of Donkey Hodie skips 7 episodes due to them referencing elements that aren't considered acceptable in Saudi Arabian culture. They are "The Try Scouts", "Wiz Kazizz Kazaam", "Stanley's One-Dragon Show", "A Donkey Hodie Halloween", "Hey-O, Purple Moon", "Fashion Donkey" and "Bright Bright Bugs".
Banned in China / int_5ebd9db6	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_5ebd9db6	featureConfidence	1.0
Donkey Hodie	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_5ebd9db6
Banned in China / int_6085cffc	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6085cffc	comment	As of February 2020, the site has apparently been banned in China. On the 29th of February, Archive staff responded to reports that the site was inaccessible that the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end. There have been some rumors that this was due to complaints by one of the actors in the Chinese drama, The Untamed, over the portrayals of his character in fandom, especially ones involving queer content. This makes the situation quite ironic if the rumors are true. The Untamed is adapted from a popular Boys Love web novel, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi.
Banned in China / int_6085cffc	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6085cffc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Untamed	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6085cffc
Banned in China / int_626a75bc	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_626a75bc	comment	BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is banned on the grounds of suggestive and revealing outfits on some characters.
Banned in China / int_626a75bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_626a75bc	featureConfidence	1.0
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_626a75bc
Banned in China / int_6300d32a	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6300d32a	comment	The film 300, where the Persians are portrayed as slavering, inhuman monsters, if by an Unreliable Narrator, was unsurprisingly banned in Iran.
Banned in China / int_6300d32a	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6300d32a	featureConfidence	1.0
300	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6300d32a
Banned in China / int_63213484	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_63213484	comment	Persepolis is banned in Iran for its negative portrayal of the Iranian government. The film adaptation was briefly banned in Lebanon for the same reason, but was lifted following outcries from the country's intellectuals and politicians.
Banned in China / int_63213484	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_63213484	featureConfidence	1.0
Persepolis (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_63213484
Banned in China / int_6373f729	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6373f729	comment	The Diary of a Young Girl is not banned, and is sometimes required reading in schools. However, the views of the education system and the public differ - The education system makes the point that while Anne Frank had a beautiful dream, her foolishness to be defeated by the Nazis is what killed her, and they use this point to demonize the United States of America further. The public, on the other hand, relate to the struggles of Frank herself.
Banned in China / int_6373f729	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6373f729	featureConfidence	1.0
The Diary of a Young Girl	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6373f729
Banned in China / int_644a51e7	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_644a51e7	comment	Lightyear has been banned in 14 countries across the Middle East (including Syria) and Southeast Asia (including Indonesia and Malaysia) over a 10-second same sex kissing scene (with Commander Hawthorne and her wife), as the authorities in those countries consider LGBT characters and themes as offensive. It is reported that Indonesian censors stated that they didn't ban the movie in the country, Â "but suggested the owner of the movie think about their audience in Indonesia where an LGBT kissing scene is still considered sensitive.", while in Malaysia officials claim Disney took offense to their suggestion to cut the kissing scene and not distribute the movie there on their own accord, and that they would have totally allowed the movie to screen with the 10 second cut. It was also banned in Kazakhstan for the same reasons after the country's Culture and Sports Minister responded to calls from local conservative and religious groups to ban the film. Despite that, the film was allowed to be screened in Singapore as the ban was overturned in that country not much later, but with an NC16 rating, and the film was later put on Disney+ Hotstar in Malaysia with an 18 rating and in Indonesia with an 21+ rating (over typical 17+).
Banned in China / int_644a51e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_644a51e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Lightyear	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_644a51e7
Banned in China / int_64e03e4b	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_64e03e4b	comment	Various popular websites have frequently been banned or censored in numerous countries around the world for political reasons. They include Facebook ([1]), Twitter ([2]), Wikipedia ([3]), and YouTube ([4]), just to name a few.
Banned in China / int_64e03e4b	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_64e03e4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Facebook	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_64e03e4b
Banned in China / int_6739948a	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6739948a	comment	South Korea banned The Interview from its media markets. Yes, that's right, South Korea did, even though it's anti-North Korean. Why? Because it glamorizes the death of Kim Jong-un. Despite their intensive military buildups for that very reason, the South Korean government would much rather avoid a war with North Korea, and found the movie to be in bad taste.
Banned in China / int_6739948a	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6739948a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Interview	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6739948a
Banned in China / int_6744d821	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House has had some trouble properly getting onto Disney+ in Singapore due to the show's myriad LGBT+ characters. The series has a noticeably higher rating of NC16 on the Singaporean version of the service, and multiple episodes of the series are also missing as well.
Banned in China / int_6744d821	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6744d821	featureConfidence	1.0
The Owl House	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6744d821
Banned in China / int_68a59532	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_68a59532	comment	The Best Page in the Universe: The site is banned in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. And the creator is proud of it. He even once traveled to Dubai to verify that his site is indeed banned there and to litter printouts of his website around the city to taunt the ban. (Turns out he was banned for a technicality, not content, but he thinks it still counts.) He also made a dick out of their largest skyscraper. In a case of Un-person, the site is also banned in stores or other workplaces associated with Apple, in such a way that suggests the site doesn't even exist at all (attempts to access it from those IPs instead redirect to a MacBook Pro ad).
Banned in China / int_68a59532	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_68a59532	featureConfidence	1.0
The Best Page in the Universe (Website)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_68a59532
Banned in China / int_6ab79c14	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6ab79c14	comment	Bend It Like Beckham is the only Western movie ever shown on North Korean TV, albeit in heavily abridged form.
Banned in China / int_6ab79c14	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6ab79c14	featureConfidence	1.0
Bend It Like Beckham	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6ab79c14
Banned in China / int_6b85085e	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6b85085e	comment	None of the Mortal Kombat games since Mortal Kombat Trilogy on the original PlayStation have been localized for the Japanese market due to excessive gore and violence.
Banned in China / int_6b85085e	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6b85085e	featureConfidence	1.0
Mortal Kombat (Franchise)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6b85085e
Banned in China / int_6bf4358b	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6bf4358b	comment	Andy Warhol's Bad was banned on its initial release.
Banned in China / int_6bf4358b	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6bf4358b	featureConfidence	1.0
Andy Warhol's Bad	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6bf4358b
Banned in China / int_6c1d09b3	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 was initially refused classification in Australia for drug use, while Microsoft refused to allow the Xbox 360 version to be sold in India likely due to the appearance of mutated cattle called Brahmin possibly being offensive to Hindus. It was eventually released in the former with a MA15+ rating after the aforementioned drug was changed from morphine to the generically named "Med-X", a change made to all versions. Japan almost banned it due to "The Power of the Atom" sidequest, which gave the main character the option to either disarm or detonate a nuclear bomb worshipped by residents of a town, but ultimately gave it a "Z" (Adults Only) rating after the detonation option was disabled.
Banned in China / int_6c1d09b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6c1d09b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6c1d09b3
Banned in China / int_6f153936	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6f153936	comment	The Last Temptation of Christ was banned in Argentina, Chile, Israel, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, and Turkey for its allegedly blashphemous content. It was unbanned in Chile in 2003 after the film became a symbol in the 90s for the fight against censorship and conservatism in Chilean society, and was only unbanned in Mexico in 2005. Unlike with the aformentioned Cannibal Holocaust and Da Vinci Code, bootlegs of this film can not be found in the Philippines.
Banned in China / int_6f153936	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6f153936	featureConfidence	1.0
The Last Temptation of Christ	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6f153936
Banned in China / int_6fd4e61f	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_6fd4e61f	comment	Animal Farm was banned in various communist countries due to being an unflattering allegory for Josef Stalin's reign, and was banned in the United Arab Emirates because pigs serve as the book's protagonists. The bans have since been lifted in their respective countries, though mentions of it was censored on the Chinese internet.
Banned in China / int_6fd4e61f	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_6fd4e61f	featureConfidence	1.0
Animal Farm	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_6fd4e61f
Banned in China / int_7149a731	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7149a731	comment	Wonder Woman (2017) is banned in Lebanon, Qatar, and Tunisia because the title character is played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot. It didn't happen with Wonder Woman 1984 however.
Banned in China / int_7149a731	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7149a731	featureConfidence	1.0
Wonder Woman (2017)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7149a731
Banned in China / int_7385bc4d	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7385bc4d	comment	Bangladesh has been known to prevent the release of certain works not in the Bengali language. Much of what it imports comes through neighboring India, and much of that is made or dubbed in Hindi; the government wanted to fend off the growing influence of the Hindi language in Bangladesh. In particular, Doraemon couldn't be shown on television unless it was dubbed in Bengali.
Banned in China / int_7385bc4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7385bc4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Doraemon (Manga)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7385bc4d
Banned in China / int_74031ab2	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_74031ab2	comment	Rocketman (2019) was banned in Samoa because of a gay sex scene that is considered culturally incompatible in Samoa. Milk, which is a biographical depiction of gay activist Harvey Milk, was also banned.
Banned in China / int_74031ab2	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_74031ab2	featureConfidence	1.0
Rocketman (2019)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_74031ab2
Banned in China / int_7441e239	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7441e239	comment	Although The Ten Commandments was filmed in Egypt, complete with assistance from the modern Egyptian military, it ended up being banned in that country when it finally came out. This was largely because it had the bad luck of being released during the height of the Suez Crisis, making Gamal Abdel Nasser opposed to releasing a film in which Israel wins over Egypt.
Banned in China / int_7441e239	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7441e239	featureConfidence	1.0
The Ten Commandments (1956)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7441e239
Banned in China / int_753491f7	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_753491f7	comment	Fantasia was banned but then recut on initial release to remove the Rite of Spring part, which a censor believed "gave an entirely materialistic view on the origin of life" (most likely because said scene focuses on the Big Bang, something that would have been at odds with traditional Catholic beliefsnote Which is ironic given that the Big Bang theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest). It has since been released entirely uncut.
Banned in China / int_753491f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_753491f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Fantasia	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_753491f7
Banned in China / int_75564ad3	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_75564ad3	comment	In 2005, the Garbage Pail Kids franchise was banned in the country and imports or exports of it were outlawed in their General Import and Export Tax Law that states: "any type of stickers printed in color or in white and black, presented for sale in envelopes or packages, even when they include chewing gum, candy or any other type of articles, containing drawings, figures or illustrations that represent children in a degrading or ridiculous manner, in attitudes of incitement to violence, self-destruction or any other form of antisocial behavior, known as Garbage Pail Kids, for example, printed by any company or business name."
Banned in China / int_75564ad3	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_75564ad3	featureConfidence	1.0
Garbage Pail Kids (Franchise)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_75564ad3
Banned in China / int_774aac31	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_774aac31	comment	District 9 was banned from theaters in Nigeria due to its unflattering depictions of Nigerian gangsters and scammers.
Banned in China / int_774aac31	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_774aac31	featureConfidence	1.0
District 9	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_774aac31
Banned in China / int_7832b74c	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7832b74c	comment	Several episodes of Steven Universe and The Loud House have been banned in Russia due to the "propaganda" law that prohibits promoting LGBT rights or messages. Steven Universe episodes "The Answer", "Hit the Diamond", "Mr. Greg", and "Last One Out of Beach City" were all never broadcast in Russia (and by proxy Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav countries - themselves strongholds of pro-Russian opinion and support for the gay propaganda law - due to a shared broadcast feed) due to their LGBT-friendly themes regarding Ruby and Sapphire's relationship (resulting in a Plot Hole later on with regards to the five Rubies) and Pearl's relationship with Rose. During a panel on a fan convention, Russian dub director Dmitry Filimonov has said that several episodes regarding Ruby and Sapphire's wedding were dubbed, but will not be aired. Three years later it was revealed that Steven Universe: The Movie and Steven Universe: Future were fully dubbed, also never to be shown on Russian television for the same reasons.
Banned in China / int_7832b74c	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7832b74c	featureConfidence	1.0
Steven Universe	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7832b74c
Banned in China / int_7988cb68	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect was banned because of a brief lesbian sex scene for all but around two days before being unbanned and given an M18 rating. This news story also brought us this video by the Media Development Authority, the people who banned it in the first place.
Banned in China / int_7988cb68	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7988cb68	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect (Franchise)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7988cb68
Banned in China / int_7a63f7	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7a63f7	comment	Raging Bull was banned for excessive violence.
Banned in China / int_7a63f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7a63f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Raging Bull	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7a63f7
Banned in China / int_7b955b43	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7b955b43	comment	The Australian film Balibo, which depicts Australian journalists getting killed by Indonesian soldiers during the latter's 1975 invasion of East Timor, is banned in Indonesia. The Indonesian government's version of the story stated that they died in crossfire. A local journalists' association conducted a screening, attended by about 500 people.
Banned in China / int_7b955b43	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7b955b43	featureConfidence	1.0
Balibo	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7b955b43
Banned in China / int_7db5e90f	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7db5e90f	comment	"Billy the Kid" from Lucky Luke was banned because Billy was shown sucking a gun.
Banned in China / int_7db5e90f	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7db5e90f	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucky Luke (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7db5e90f
Banned in China / int_7e1563ba	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7e1563ba	comment	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was banned under the Ba'athist regime for its mocking depiction of Saddam Hussein as the homosexual lover of Satan. Co-creator Matt Stone joked that after he was captured by American forces, they used the film to torture him.
Banned in China / int_7e1563ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7e1563ba	featureConfidence	1.0
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7e1563ba
Banned in China / int_7e67ad4f	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_7e67ad4f	comment	Cuties was banned in Turkey on the same day the film was premiered on Netflix, despite Netflix having fully dubbed the entire film into Turkish.
Banned in China / int_7e67ad4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_7e67ad4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Cuties	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_7e67ad4f
Banned in China / int_80ddf5c1	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_80ddf5c1	comment	God of War was banned because of the high violence and sexuality content. The 2018 PS4 game, which toned down the former and lack the latter, was not.
Banned in China / int_80ddf5c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_80ddf5c1	featureConfidence	1.0
God of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_80ddf5c1
Banned in China / int_812165e3	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_812165e3	comment	Tropico 5 was banned in Thailand because the game hit too close to home with the military junta that had seized control of the country. The first four games and 6 remain unbanned, however.
Banned in China / int_812165e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_812165e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tropico (Video Game)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_812165e3
Banned in China / int_8124a34e	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_8124a34e	comment	Barbie dolls are banned in Saudi Arabia, partly due to Islamic law and its issues with the female body, but also apparently because the government sees them as "Zionist dolls" and "symbols of the perversion and decadence of the West". An UAE-based toy company created Fulla as The Moral Substitute, who wears Islamic dress and promotes Muslim values.
Banned in China / int_8124a34e	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_8124a34e	featureConfidence	1.0
Barbie (Franchise)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_8124a34e
Banned in China / int_820587af	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_820587af	comment	Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo were novels released during the Spanish occupation of the country. Since they spoke about nationwide corruption in the government and church, you can imagine the ruling Spanish and archbishops weren't going to let something like that getting printed in the country. In the post-Spanish occupation Philippines, these once-banned books are now studied in Filipino high schools and colleges.
Banned in China / int_820587af	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_820587af	featureConfidence	1.0
Noli Me Tangere	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_820587af
Banned in China / int_835501ca	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_835501ca	comment	Freaks was banned on initial release in Ireland, Italy, Finland, and the United Kingdom.
Banned in China / int_835501ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_835501ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Freaks	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_835501ca
Banned in China / int_8714ad8f	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_8714ad8f	comment	The song "Puff the Magic Dragon" was apparently banned back in 1963 due to its lyrics allegedly being a metaphor for drugs. Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore do not mess around when it comes to drugs and depictions of it in the media. However, Malaysia and Thailand saw it (correctly, as it happens) as an innocent children's song and nothing more, and thus it wasn't banned in those countries.
Banned in China / int_8714ad8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_8714ad8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Puff the Magic Dragon (Music)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_8714ad8f
Banned in China / int_8734c781	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_8734c781	comment	Bloody Mama was banned in New Zealand at one point due to its high levels of violence. The novelization was also banned, and this ban wasn't lifted until 2012, more than four decades after its release.
Banned in China / int_8734c781	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_8734c781	featureConfidence	1.0
Bloody Mama	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_8734c781
Banned in China / int_88f055ec	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_88f055ec	comment	According to Netflix, Full Metal Jacket is banned in Vietnam.
Banned in China / int_88f055ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_88f055ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Full Metal Jacket	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_88f055ec
Banned in China / int_89998d16	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_89998d16	comment	The I'm in the Band episode "Happy Fun Rock Metal Time" was banned for similar reasons as the Simpsons episode mentioned below, as like that episode, this one also features a wacky game show and also pokes fun at Japanese subcultures.
Banned in China / int_89998d16	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_89998d16	featureConfidence	1.0
I'm in the Band	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_89998d16
Banned in China / int_89ab8114	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_89ab8114	comment	Almost any episodes that take place in ancient Japan were skipped in the Korean dub of Flint the Time Detective. However, this caused Dub Induced Plothole regarding a few important characters that appear later in the series.
Banned in China / int_89ab8114	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_89ab8114	featureConfidence	1.0
Flint the Time Detective	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_89ab8114
Banned in China / int_89c084b2	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_89c084b2	comment	Foreign rock bands deemed "subversive", like The Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, and Frank Zappa, were banned. Domestic rock bands, who often imitated the famous greats, were often controversial, but they weren't automatically banned; this is how Viktor Tsoi became one of the most famous Soviet Koreans in a country of 300 million people.
Banned in China / int_89c084b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_89c084b2	featureConfidence	1.0
The Rolling Stones (Band) (Music)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_89c084b2
Banned in China / int_8a5a30c1	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_8a5a30c1	comment	Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show was banned for depicting graphic violence on animals, which was illegal in Japan. It's a miracle it was even made, as no one wanted to sponsor it, and it took the author five years and his entire life's savings to finish it. It did see a limited print run in Japan after the law was overturned.
Banned in China / int_8a5a30c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_8a5a30c1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Banned in China / int_8a95e28c	comment	Sweden was the first country in the world to implement a government branch for film censorship. It was called "Statens biografbyrÃ¥" ("The state cinema bureau") and was founded in 1911. The bureau mainly focused on violence, banning and censoring material it found "skadligt upphetsande" ("dangerously exciting"). When home video arrived in the 1980s, censorship was extended to include them also, although many films ended up slipping through the rain. Censorship was severely relaxed in the '90s, with 1992 being the year that the wall broke, thanks to Reservoir Dogs and BrainDead being released uncut and unbanned. Censorship was finally ended in 2011, and nowadays the cinema bureau is called "Statens medierÃ¥d" ("The state media advice") and mainly focuses on determining age ratings and banning violent pornography (and even so, no porno has been banned in Sweden since 2010). Here is a list of about every film ever banned in Sweden. However, please note that the majority of these titles ended up being approved sooner or later anyway, in either cut or uncut form. In fact, many of the movies that were unbanned even tends to brag about it on the modern uncensored DVD and Blu-Ray releases in the country, such as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Behold the legendary horror classic too gruesome for Sweden in the '70s!".
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Banned in China / int_8b37a218	comment	The Meek: According to the author's commentary here, the comic's website is banned; this is likely because of the nudity present in some chapters of the comic.
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Banned in China / int_8d814070	comment	South Korea doesn't really like MAS*H, because South Koreans are depicted as living in poverty, even though it's realistic; at the time of the Korean War and until The '70s, South Korea's GDP was smaller than Ghana's.
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Banned in China / int_8e09ebf	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_8e09ebf	comment	Any show that has Japanese elements is immediately not allowed for airing in the country due to strained Japan-Korea relations. In fact, Power Rangers Ninja Storm (an American-made show) and Samurai Sentai Shinkenger never got aired in dubbed form at all — the latter only got any air time when the dubs of Kamen Rider Decade and Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger showed them. It was later found out that for the former, it's because Power Rangers licensing is now expensive for the US franchise to keep airing in the country, switching to Super Sentai dubs (Albeit keeping the Power Rangers name). The only Sentai show skipped in the country so far, despite it being not Japanese enough to warrant a ban, is Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger, but for a different reason.
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Banned in China / int_8e8086c3	comment	Goldfinger was temporarily banned because Gert FrÃ¶be, the man who played the eponymous character, had been a member of the Nazi party from 1929 to 1937. The ban was lifted after it was discovered that he had actually helped two Jews hide from the Gestapo during the war.
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Banned in China / int_8f36f969	comment	In general, shows with LGBT characters have been either banned or censored. Notably, in the Arabic dub of The Loud House on Nickelodeon/Nicktoons in Arab countries, one of Clyde's dads, Howard, was changed to a woman, complete with a female voice actor.
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Banned in China / int_8f8df73b	comment	Mokran Video, North Korea's main (and possible only) home media distributor, began dubbing and distributing some Western content over time, mostly animated movies like The Lion King (1994), Ratatouille and all mainline Shrek movies. The only major changes they have in common is the omission of their Western studios' names.
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Banned in China / int_917deeee	comment	Meet the Feebles was banned in Ireland at some point, likely due to just how over-the-top the movie is with gore and adult themes.
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Banned in China / int_917deeee	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Feebles	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_917deeee
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Banned in China / int_9350279e	comment	The Crayon Shin-chan series was not released in multiple Arabic-speaking countries due to its adult, risque, and sexual content. In India, the anime series was banned for a while in 2009 for promoting the use of inappropriate language and sexual exploitation of minors, particularly nudity. A heavily censored version, which made the show more appropriate to the target audience, was allowed into the country, leading to a huge fan following there. In Spain's Valencia region, the anime series was pulled from the air by RTVV (RadiotelevisiÃ³ Valenciana) on November 29, 2002, due to the show's content not being "suitable" for children's programming. In Vietnam, the manga was banned in 2006 after six volumes because of intense backlash from Moral Guardians. Years later, the manga was eventually rereleased in the country in a censored form.
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Banned in China / int_9441418c	comment	Porky's was banned for roughly two weeks after initial release.
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Banned in China / int_945d9e78	comment	Not officially banned, but support for PokÃ©mon Duel was dropped in the Netherlands after the Dutch Kansspelautoriteit (loosely translated to chance-game authority) allegedly looked into the game for its lootbox mechanic. (Same law as the phone-in game shows under live-action TV.)
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Banned in China / int_9937b5e3	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_9937b5e3	comment	Sistar's "How Dare You" suffered a triple whammy. The video was banned from public broadcast because it featured pole dancing (really just dancing near a pole), broadcaster KBS banned it for belittling lyrics (the "how dare you", which is directed at a cheating boyfriend), and another music show banned it for provocative choreography (unrelated to the pole dancing). The last two were circumvented by changing the lyrics and the choreography for performances on those stations.
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Banned in China / int_9959e0f9	comment	Slayer's Christ Illusion is unofficially banned in India, after the Indian branch of EMI recalled and destroyed all physical copies of the album after the Catholic Secular Forum sent a complaint to the Mumbai Police Commissioner that the songs "Skeleton Christ" and "Jihad" were offensive to Christians and Muslims respectively.
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Banned in China / int_99bab75a	comment	One of Macross Plus's soundtrack CDs was banned in Singapore because of the song "Idol Talk", which contains samples of dialogue from a phone sex operator.
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Banned in China / int_99bab75a	featureConfidence	1.0
Macross Plus	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_99bab75a
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Banned in China / int_99babe7c	comment	Fritz the Cat was banned in Malaysia, the Maldives, New Zealand, Singapore and Spain for its transgressive content, including violence, drugs, profanity and sexual content. As if all of this wasn't bad enough on its own, having it in an animated cartoon with antropomorphic cats probably didn't go over well at all with these countries.
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Fritz the Cat	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_99babe7c
Banned in China / int_9a152d5d	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_9a152d5d	comment	Cow and Chicken and Back at the Barnyard are both banned in the country due to their depiction of cows, which are seen as sacred creatures in Hindu religion.
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Banned in China / int_9a152d5d	featureConfidence	1.0
Cow and Chicken	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_9a152d5d
Banned in China / int_9e2dbb4d	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	The Regular Show episode "The Real Thomas" was banned from airing on Cartoon Network RSEE because its premise about Thomas being a Russian spy was considered potentially offensive, given Russia's then-current annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and support (overt or covert) for insurgencies in the country's East. Russian government-owned news outlet RT straight-up called the episode "American propaganda", and indeed, the episode is often seen as South Park-style commentary on current events. Since the Cartoon Network feed in Russia was also shared with Bulgaria, ex-Yugoslav countries, Albania and other ex-Soviet countries (including Ukraine), this ban ended up affecting multiple other countries as well. This ban was also carried out in spite of the fact that the episode was extensively edited and altered by Turner Broadcasting System Europe to remove references to Russia.
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Regular Show	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_9e2dbb4d
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Banned in China / int_9f02efb1	comment	EverQuest was banned because "the player can make morally ambiguous decisions, and thus the game is harmful to the consumer's mental health.â€�
Banned in China / int_9f02efb1	featureApplicability	1.0
Banned in China / int_9f02efb1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Banned in China / int_9f3684de	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_9f3684de	comment	In 2023, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was reportedly being banned or delayed in some Middle Eastern countries due to the presence of LGBT content. A censored Arabic version of the game was released, which removed Pride flags and altered a side mission featuring a gay couple.
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Banned in China / int_9f5ca7ba	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_9f5ca7ba	comment	The OverSimplified videos on Adolf Hitler are blocked on YouTube in some of the European countries, for obvious reasons. This fact is even acknowledged during some of the NordVPN sponsor sections in some videos. Here's the full list of countries which banned the videos.◊
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Banned in China / int_9f89a5f0	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon used to be banned in Saudi Arabia for "promoting gambling and Zionism". However, that didn't stop some of the media from popping up there anyway, according to Bulbapedia, the PokÃ©mon wiki. The main victim was the Trading Card Game, where the Colorless Energy Card resembles the Jewish Star of David. That is why Venus Center and Animation International ceased distributing and dubbing PokÃ©mon due to the controversy in 2001. After that Lebanon-based KM Productions and its sister company Super M Productions took over the dubbing production of PokÃ©mon and recast everyone. The bans have since been lifted.
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Banned in China / int_9fc0dbb7	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_9fc0dbb7	comment	Despite its socialist message, the film version of The Grapes of Wrath was banned after Soviet audiences ended up being impressed that the Joads could afford their own car.
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Banned in China / int_9fc0dbb7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Banned in China / int_a04b0ca3	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_a04b0ca3	comment	English-language publishers refused to publish the Tintin comic book Tintin in the Congo until 2005, due to its racist depictions of Africans and pro-colonial message. When it was finally published in the UK, it carried a forward that placed these elements in a historical context. Ironically, the book is pretty popular in sub-Saharan Africa, including the Congo. Contrary to popular belief, the comic was never banned in South Africa as commonly reported.
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Banned in China / int_a11e8bc3	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_a11e8bc3	comment	Un ballo in maschera was not performed in Sweden until the 1920s. When it was finally allowed there, it was detested because of its historical inaccuracy.
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Banned in China / int_a54eef52	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_a54eef52	comment	Hetalia: Axis Powers is banned in Korea for the character of, well, Korea being a copycat desperately trying to rip off Japan's entire culture and way of life, despite Korea not appearing in the anime.
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Hetalia: Axis Powers (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_a54eef52
Banned in China / int_a5549ed0	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_a5549ed0	comment	Copies of The Bible will apparently be confiscated by border patrol when entering Azerbaijan.
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Banned in China / int_a5549ed0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Bible	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_a5549ed0
Banned in China / int_a5a0dd85	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_a5a0dd85	comment	Brave New World was banned on initial publication in Australia and Ireland due to its depictions of drug use, sexuality, and suicide. Both bans have since been lifted.
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Brave New World	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_a5a0dd85
Banned in China / int_a5f98cbf	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_a5f98cbf	comment	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life was banned from 1983 until 1990.
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Banned in China / int_a78cc92f	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_a78cc92f	comment	The website of Chick Publications, home to the infamous Chick tracts, is blocked. A Christian couple was convicted of sedition and fined for distributing Chick tracts that portrayed Islam in a negative light.
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Banned in China / int_a8a40154	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_a8a40154	comment	Postal 2 is banned in Germany, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia for its extreme violence and use of ethnic stereotypes. The game was banned in Germany a decade after its release, but one can still purchase the game digitally in Malaysia and Pakistan.
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Banned in China / int_a8c95694	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_a8c95694	comment	While it was never officially banned, The Flight of Dragons used to be broadcast every summer on the Educational Channel (a government-funded PBS equivalent) until one lady called to complain - while it was on the air - that one of the characters, the good wizard Carolianus, is an antisemitic stereotype, due to his large nose and the stars (resembling Stars of David) on his robe. Never mind that he was the good guy, or that his robe also featured moons which are, if anything, a Muslim symbol. The broadcast was cut short and the film was never shown on Israeli TV again.
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Banned in China / int_aa1247ca	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_aa1247ca	comment	Twitter / X was also temporarily banned (for less than a day) after Elon Musk's rebranding of the platform, because of the association of the symbol "X" with pornography.
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TwitterX	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_aa1247ca
Banned in China / int_aba7ffb9	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_aba7ffb9	comment	The fourth entry of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel has become banned in the UAE for undisclosed reasons.
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Banned in China / int_abf4c9b3	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_abf4c9b3	comment	A common myth is that Dead or Alive: Dimensions is banned in Sweden. At the time of its release, Sweden was caught up in a highly publicized, highly controversial trial of a manga translator, who'd been caught with Lolicon and Shotacon porn on his hard drive. In response, a guy asked on a forum if the Dead or Alive games should be banned then, since they clearly sexualize teenage girls (all DoA games before or since, have been released scot-free in Sweden) and in response Bergsala (Nintendo of Europe's official Nordic distributor) didn't pick up Dimensions for distribution, meaning that it did not get released in Sweden (or in Denmark, Norway and Finland, due to those countries also being served by Bergsala). But it's not banned: you can import it with no trouble whatsoever, and for that matter Sweden doesn't have any government branch or ratings board dealing with video games. And yes, this event is most likely the reason for Dead or Alive introducing Marie Rose, an underage-looking Swedish character to the roster in later entries to the series.
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Banned in China / int_ae369c06	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_ae369c06	comment	A Clockwork Orange was banned in Brazil, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Nova Scotia, Ireland, South Africa, and South Korea for excessive violence and strong sexual content. A censored version that placed Censor Boxes over the nudity was eventually permitted in Brazil, while the rest eventually allowed for it to be released uncensored. Stanley Kubrick voluntarily withdrew it from distribution in the United Kingdom after hearing of copycat crimes and rapes inspired by the movie and fearing for his own safety (likening himself to the film's Reclusive Artist); it was eventually released there following his death in 1999.
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Banned in China / int_ae56742b	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_ae56742b	comment	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is banned in Saudi Arabia and several other Middle-Eastern countries because of the prominent role of America Chavez; while the movie does not show if like in the comics she's a lesbian, there is a brief scene revealing she has two moms.
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Banned in China / int_aec75372	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_aec75372	comment	The second season of Maken-ki! was refused classification in New Zealand, due to what the classification described as a "loose narrative" being used as a vehicle for the sexual exploitation of minors.
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Banned in China / int_aee68dc5	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_aee68dc5	comment	Charlie Wilson's War is not actually banned, but Universal Pictures International Russia decided not to release it, as they was thought that a film with such a strong anti-Soviet tone would be unlikely to make a profit in Russia. Among the Russians who have seen the film, the response is overwhelmingly negative.
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Banned in China / int_af7aead4	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_af7aead4	comment	An episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver critical of Modi was not aired by streaming service Disney+ Hotstar, which streams the show in India. Oliver would later criticize Hotstar's practices in a segment on a later episode, although noting he was more resentful for Disney's censorship of his "factually accurate" joke from a prior episode about Donald Duck having a corkscrew penis.
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Banned in China / int_b0282745	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_b0282745	comment	Two Buck Danny issues were banned since they took place during The Korean War. It caused future issues from no using real countries.
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Buck Danny / Comicbook	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_b0282745
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Banned in China / int_b0c66bf6	comment	Black Swan is banned for sexual themes considered too taboo for the country's sensibilities. It would have been released with cuts made, but Mohammad Naser, the UAE cinema censor, declared that there would be too much to cut and that there's no point in showing a butchered film.
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Black Swan	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_b0c66bf6
Banned in China / int_b2431955	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_b2431955	comment	Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA has been banned for being "child pornography", most likely due to having elementary school students in borderline-Lolicon style fanservice (albeit not to the extent to what they're implying even if there's still extremely uncomfortable bits to get through). In fact, Russia has a strong stance against works they deem Lolicon.
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Banned in China / int_b2bc3608	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_b2bc3608	comment	Uncharted (2022) was banned due to "illegal images" of the infamous Nine-Dash Line over the South China Sea.
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Banned in China / int_b3685f53	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_b3685f53	comment	Argo, a film about the rescue of six hostages during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, is not surprisingly banned, but bootleg copies are selling very well. Parodied on the season 38 finale of Saturday Night Live, in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (played by Fred Armisen) creates his own version of Argo called Bengo F**k Yourself (a Take That! to Ben Affleck).
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Argo	hasFeature	Banned in China / int_b3685f53
Banned in China / int_b39c0eac	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_b39c0eac	comment	Clash of Clans is currently banned in Iran, citing the reason as "promoting violence and tribal conflict".
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Banned in China / int_b4a27b42	comment	Due to the book's implicit criticism of collectivization and nationalism and its praise of individuality, the original Russian text of Doctor Zhivago was only available to Russian expatriates around the world until the collapse of the Soviet Union. The author, Boris Pasternak, was also forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature under threat of him and his loved ones getting deported or worse.
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Banned in China / int_b544e093	comment	The Battle of Algiers (1966) was banned in France until 1971 for its criticism of France's human rights violations during the Algerian War of Independence.
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Banned in China / int_b6b17592	comment	Kingsman: The Golden Circle was banned in Cambodia due to the movie's portrayal of the country as the haven for bad guys, particularly with the Angkor Wat being used as the secret hideout for the Big Bad.
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Banned in China / int_b797e684	comment	Vietnam banned the live-action Barbie film, alleging that one scene displays the nine-dash line map of the South China Sea. Said line depicts Chinese territorial claims (of both the mainland and Taiwan) in that body of water, which are vehemently disputed by Vietnam and the other coastal countries (Brunei, Malaysia, and the Philippines).
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Banned in China / int_b9b06d7e	comment	Borat got banned in every single Arab country except for Lebanon as the film censors in those countries found it impossible to even censor without leaving plot holes open. In one account, a censor in the United Arab Emirates stated that only half an hour of the film would have been left had they censored the offensive scenes rather than ban it outright. In fact, he and his colleagues walked out of the room before it even ended. Similarly, Kazakhstan banned the film for similar reasons, as well portraying the country in a negative light, but later relented after the government admitted to a tourist boom linked to the film's popularity. In addition, the Russian Ministry of Culture recommended that the film not be shown in theaters, at least partly out of fear that the film would stoke racial tensions against the country's substantial Central Asian minority population.
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Banned in China / int_ba0200d1	comment	The music of composer Mikis Theodorakis (best known for Zorba the Greek) was banned due to his opposition to the regime. Theodorakis was also arrested and sent to prison for a few months.
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Banned in China / int_ba741b22	comment	Plane got a lot of flak from Senator Robin Padilla who demanded the film to be banned, a sentiment shared by both Senate President Miguel Zubiri and Senator Ronald dela Rosa. Though the Directors' Guild of the Philippines (DGIP) opposed the proposed ban because it's nothing but an overreaction to a mindless B-movie and viewers have the choice to either watch the movie or ignore it. To summarize, the premise is about a commercial airliner crashing into the island of Jolo which is depicted as a lawless region run by militias and insurgents, and both the Philippine government and its military are too terrified to even send help (the latter having apparently withdrawn from the island beforehand), forcing Scarsdale to hire mercenaries to initiate search-and-rescue operations instead.
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Banned in China / int_bf1dd022	comment	Kite (1998) was apparently banned in Norway due to scenes in the film being considered "child pornography", although whether or not this is actually true appears to be unclear.
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Banned in China / int_bfcfaed0	comment	Natural Born Killers was banned on initial release, but it has since been lifted.
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Banned in China / int_c24649f8	comment	Zoolander was banned in Singapore as a move of goodwill towards their neighbor Malaysia. Five years later, though, the two countries had a falling-out, and Singapore lifted the ban. The problem is that even after mending the relationship, Singapore can't just re-ban the movie.
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Banned in China / int_c29f1036	comment	Much like the above example, The Prince of Egypt ended up being banned as well, albeit for different reasons. The primary grievance came from the fact that the movie depicts Rameses II as the Pharaoh of the Exodus; Rameses II is very highly regarded in modern Egypt, and Egyptian belief holds him to be a different pharaoh than the one in the Exodus.
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Banned in China / int_c387adfe	comment	The movie No Escape (2015) was banned in Cambodia because the language the police officers used was an altered version of Khmer, thus potentially identifying the film's unnamed country (then undergoing a very violent coup) as Cambodia.
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Banned in China / int_c3d129cd	comment	The anime adaptation of High School DÃ—D was initially refused classification in New Zealand, on the count that it "encourages and legitimizes the pursuit of young persons as viable adult sexual partners." It was reclassified R16 (restricted to 16-year-olds and above only) in 2022.
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Banned in China / int_c43df4d8	comment	A lesbian "kiss" was cut from the Doctor Who episode ''Deep Breath'' when it aired in Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, although it is available uncut for streaming on BBC Player in Malaysia and Singapore. The hot air balloon made of human skin in the same episode was apparently just fine, though.
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Banned in China / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was banned for setting the Middle East war part (which ends in the now infamous nuclear explosion) in Saudi Arabia. Yes, it's anonymous, and it's merely called "Middle East", but the satellite maps point roughly to Saudi Arabia.
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Banned in China / int_c5367b53	comment	Nekromantik is banned in Australia, Iceland, and Norway for its disgusting subject matter.
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Banned in China / int_c5e69cfa	comment	Lolita was banned in Argentina, Canada, France, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom due to its controversial subject matter.
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Banned in China / int_c9a55162	comment	Disney announced that Strange World theatrical release has been skipped (and not submitted to local authorities) in Bangladesh, China, the Middle East, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Turkey, and Vietnam, among many others, which was tantamount to a ban in those regions. This was due to a subplot regarding Ethan's gay relationship with Daizo in the film.
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Banned in China / int_c9fea0c4	comment	The manga Barefoot Gen has never been banned in Japan at the national level (and never banned from private sales), but it has been banned from libraries at the local level on multiple occasions: In 2012, a right wing group complained to the Matsue city assembly to ban the manga from school libraries because it contained "unsupported" depictions of Japanese atrocities. The city assembly refused to act, but the local school board subsequently moved all copies in local elementary and middle schools to closed shelves, effectively stopping students from reading the work at school. When this action became widely known nationally in 2013, there was a large public outcry. In the ensuing controversy, Japan's education minister commented that he found the ban to be appropriate, though he took no actions himself. In the end, the school board reconvened and unanimously decided to lift the ban, though it is left to individual schools to decide how they wanted to treat the books. In 2011, the legal guardian of a child complained to the central library of the city of Tottori that it was inappropriate to have a manga "with rape and other sexual depictions in a place where children can reach it." The library removed the work from its shelves and decided to provide it only to those who specifically asked for it. After the scandal in Matsue mentioned above, the library moved the manga back to the shelves.
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Banned in China / int_cc0196e1	comment	GalGun: Double Peace was banned on account of the sexual exploitation of young persons as well as the use of coercion to compel someone to submit to sexual contact.*
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Banned in China / int_cc1f756a	comment	Abominable was banned in Vietnam and eventually pulled from Malaysia and the Philippines because an onscreen map showed the nine-dash line over the South China Sea. This line represents China's territorial claims in the region, which are disputed by several countries in Southeast Asia. However the movie would later be allowed onto streaming services in those countries with the offending map removed.
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Banned in China / int_ce15336	comment	The Catcher in the Rye was banned in 1951. The ban has since been lifted, and the book has become required reading in many schools.
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Banned in China / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball has officially been rejected from broadcast by a government-owned television channel in Spainâ€™s Valencia region named Ã€ Punt, with a representative for the channel explaining that the decision had been made been in consideration of local gender legislation that prohibits the airing of â€œcontent that encourages gender discrimination through stereotypes and sexist rolesâ€�. Even before that, Canal Nou has once aired the series in The '90s.
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Banned in China / int_cffa1bda	comment	There is an informal ban on performing Richard Wagner's music in Israel, owing to the assumed connections between the music of Wagner and the philosophy of the Nazis (and the fact that Wagner himself was a rabid anti-Semite). A performance of a piece from Tristan und Isolde in 2001 was met with widespread condemnation from the media. However, radio airplay of his music doesn't elicit the same response.
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Banned in China / int_d00395ce	comment	The political drama missing. (1982), based on the disappearance of American journalist Charles Horman in the aftermath of the 1973 coup d'Ã©tat, was banned under the regime of Augusto Pinochet for its criticism of the regime and of the violent acts that were committed during the coup.
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Banned in China / int_d0cc7e8a	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_d0cc7e8a	comment	Because of SM's policy of not showing R-18 films in their theaters, Fifty Shades of Grey was not shown in some cities in the Philippines. That didn't stop the movie from being a box office hit and illegally downloaded on the web.
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Banned in China / int_d1f113da	comment	Gungho Entertainment, makers of Puzzle & Dragons, Ninjala, among others, is an odd case in that they were not banned, strictly speaking, but chose not to compromise: in response to anti-gambling laws in Belgium and the Netherlands declaring lootboxes as a form of gambling, Gungho Entertainment stopped selling to these two countries completely.
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Banned in China / int_d35a6df0	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_d35a6df0	comment	During the initial run of Moomin (1990) on Yle, three of the 104 episodes were not aired in Finland: The Piratenote due to the titular pirate threatening Snork Maiden with a knife, the Police Inspector swearing after losing his patience and the scene where Moomintroll feigns being poisoned, The Impnote due to religious concerns over the demon trapped inside the tree, as Finnish viewers would be much more familiar with the demons from Christianity rather than the demons from Japanese folklore, as well as the ending warning that the demon's tree might still be floating out there and The Birthday Surprisenote due to Little My's nightmare sequence, where she's transformed into a Stinky-like creature and the Moomin family, Snork Maiden and Sniff are laughing at her, which was seen as too scary, mean-spirited and non-Moominlike. These episodes gained a cult following due to their banned nature, and while they have never been broadcast on Finnish television they finally got a home video release in 2017 after the broadcasting rights switched over from Yle to Mtv who produced their own dub of the series.
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Banned in China / int_d3634dbb	comment	Casablanca was banned due to its portrayal of the Nazis infringing on an act preserving wartime neutrality. A cut version removing dialogue about Rick and Ilsa's love affair was eventually passed, before the movie was released uncut.
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Banned in China / int_d47b9ae	comment	2PM's song "Hands Up" used the line "Put your hands up and get your drinks up now", which was changed to "get your dreams up now" to avoid having the song banned from music programs. All references to drinking alcohol were changed to water.
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Banned in China / int_d4caf593	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_d4caf593	comment	Bully has been banned because of its depictions of school violence. Amazingly, this one was actually enforced, as Steam didn't sell the game (or any package that contains it) in Brazil, until in 2016, it came back.
Banned in China / int_d4caf593	featureApplicability	1.0
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Banned in China / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series was taken off from air after children were inspired to jump off a balcony and broke their legs.
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Banned in China / int_d616724d	type	Banned in China
Banned in China / int_d616724d	comment	Anything that is critical to Russia's "Special Military Operations" in Ukraine, since March 2022. Initially in 2014, following the annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea and takeover of parts of Donbas by Russian-backed separatists, a large number of payment processors and online services (particularly those based in the U.S. and Europe) began to block or restrict their services to residents of Crimea (including gaming services, such as Steam, Battle.net, and the local League of Legends) due to sanctions legally barring them from doing business with the country. Then, in 2022, Vladimir Putin decided to launch an open invasion of Ukraine, which led to a large number of multinational services pulling their wares from Russia and those with physical presences in Russia either suspending or terminating said presences. Any mass media operating in Russia that is critical to Russian military efforts either was shut down or shifted operations abroad and those who operate are either arrested for "misinformation" or forced to leave Russia.
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Banned in China / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Over 40 episodes of Sailor Moon were cut and banned from broadcast, while all scenes involving the Hikawa Shrine (the shrine that Rei lives in with her grandfather) were excised, along with any scenes depicting Rei in her miko robes or that involved kanji. These changes were in part due to the unpleasant history between Japan and Korea.
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Banned in China / int_d849efdf	comment	Being There had its final scene cut for its original release due to concern that the Twist Ending (which reveals Chance can walk on water) would offend Christians.
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Banned in China / int_d8ba9a46	comment	Similar to the above, Dr. Strangelove was banned due to fear of offending the Soviet Union,
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Banned in China / int_d8ffcb59	comment	Lion of the Desert, a Libyan (or rather Gaddafi)-funded film about La RÃ©sistance to Italian colonial rule, had been banned in Italy since 1987.
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Banned in China / int_d908efc	comment	As with Kuwait, the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — To the Swordsmith Village movie was banned due to a nude scene where Mitsuri takes a shower in a hot spring.
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Banned in China / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park had started to air on Tooniverse in March of 2000, but it barely got into its first season before the Republic of Korea Broadcasting Committee ordered it banned, due to numerous complaints about its content. In 2019, the show became available on Netflix for a few years.
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Banned in China / int_dc3af006	comment	Paths of Glory was banned in France and Switzerland until the death of President Charles de Gaulle in 1970 due to its critical depiction of the French Army during World War I. Germany also banned it until 1959 to avoid straining relations with France, while Spain banned it until 1986 due to its anti-militarism themes.
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Banned in China / int_dcbaf050	comment	Thor: Love and Thunder was banned from multiple Arabic-speaking countries, and was also originally postponed for a few times in Malaysia before being cancelled there, with the official reason given was due to one scene where Chris Hemsworth appeared completely naked (although only his back was shown) and that Disney refused the film board's demands to pixellate or blur out Hemsworth's butt in that scene. However, those who watched the movie thought that the character Gorr the God Butcher was the real reason why it was banned. Either that, or a scene of a pair of male humanoid aliens kissing to produce a new offspring. The film was later quietly released onto Disney+ Hotstar in Malaysia without any fanfare and with a 18+ rating.
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Banned in China / int_dcc3a3e3	comment	Mein Kampf is banned in Austria, Guatemala, the Netherlands, Poland, and Russia for being Adolf Hitler's manifesto. In the case of the Netherlands, it's because the government claims copyright of it, and has used its claim to barr printing, sales, and purchases of the book (except for an annotated scientific edition sold at the Kamp Westerbork museum, a former Nazi concentration camp on Dutch soil, which they permitted since 2018); owning it is still legal. It is not banned in Germany as commonly believed;note A 1979 legal decision declared that it could not be subject to laws against "unconstitutional propaganda" as it was first published before the introduction of the then-West German constitution. the state of Bavaria (Hitler's legal residence at the time of his death) held the copyright and simply chose not to publish it. The book became public domain in 2016 and is now published and sold within the country again.
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Banned in China / int_dd3b837b	comment	Lady Chatterley's Lover was determined by the Supreme Court to be legally "obscene" in 1957, the case having originated in 1951. The Japanese translator and the publisher were both subjected to fines, and unexpurgated versions of the text could not be legally sold under Paragraph 175 of the Japanese Penal Code,note Not to be confused with the infamous Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code, which banned homosexuality in that country. The coincidence of the number of two different paragraphs both dealing with crimes of a sexual nature is, in fact, due to the Japanese code having been based, in part, on the German code, but homosexuality has never been illegal under either of Japan's constitutions (though it was very briefly banned for a few years immediately after the opening of Japan to the West, before the passage of the Meiji Constitution). which bans the sale, publication, and exhibition (but not the possession) of obscene works. The Chatterley trial, indeed, originated the criteria Japanese courts use to judge whether or not a work is obscene. Versions of the novel sold in Japan from the 1950s through the 1990s had the offending parts replaced with asterisks. From the 1990s onward, uncensored versions of the novel began to be sold. Interestingly, on paper the relevant legislation has not changed, and there has not been a legal case that has officially overturned the 1957 ruling. Rather, prosecutors and the government have taken no action against publishers, resulting in a de facto but somewhat confusing change in Japan's obscenity laws.
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Banned in China / int_dd8ad811	comment	The 1976 British stop-motion series Chorlton and the Wheelies was banned because of Claptrap Von Spilldebeans, the talking spellbook of Fenella the Kettle Witch. He should have been depicted with a five-pointed Pentagram on his cover, but instead, he was given the six-pointed Star of David (either the modelmaker responsible was unaware of the connotations, or he simply thought a six-pointed star would be easier to draw). This wouldn't have been so much of a problem, but the spellbook also happened to speak with a German accent. Needless to say, the studio was soon met with accusations of anti-semitism from the Israeli Embassy in London, who stopped the series being sold to Israel.
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Banned in China / int_de48ce05	comment	Russian channel 2x2 got an official warning (two warnings is enough to lose a broadcasting license) from media watchdog after airing Happy Tree Friends and series of shorts called The Adventures of Big Jeff featuring an animated nudist. HTF was aired on other channel (MTV) before without any repercussions. The series weren't banned per se, but no one would touch them with a ten foot pole as a result.
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Banned in China / int_e2448642	comment	The Great Dictator was banned under the various dictatorships of Argentina, Brazil, Nazi Germany, Paraguay, and Spain for its satire of fascism. Adolf Hitler, the main subject of satire, nonetheless managed to obtain a private copy and viewed it twice. His opinion on the film has been a matter of debate.
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Banned in China / int_e25c0528	comment	In a rather odd in-game example the casino in Grand Theft Auto Online will be locked out if the Rockstar servers detect that you're in one of the 55 countries that prohibit online gambling.note You can only gamble with in-game money and there's no way to redeem in-game money for anything outside of the game, but money can be purchased with actual money via "Shark Cards" You can go in the building and spin the wheel for the free car each day, but you won't be able to purchase chips or sit down at any of the tables.
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Banned in China / int_e59dba0c	comment	SalÃ², or the 120 Days of Sodom was banned in Australia, Finland, Iran, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka for its graphic violence and nudity. The bans were eventually lifted in Australia, Finland, and New Zealand.
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Banned in China / int_e649de81	comment	"Hymne a l'Amour" by Ã‰dith Piaf was banned because Piaf dedicated it to her lover Marcel Cerdan, with whom she had an adulterous affair at the time.
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Banned in China / int_e6a2610e	comment	Archive of Our Own: As of February 2020, the site has apparently been banned in China. On the 29th of February, Archive staff responded to reports that the site was inaccessible that the matter had been investigated and the problem was not on their end. There have been some rumors that this was due to complaints by one of the actors in the Chinese drama, The Untamed, over the portrayals of his character in fandom, especially ones involving queer content. This makes the situation quite ironic if the rumors are true. The Untamed is adapted from a popular Boys Love web novel, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi. On 13 December 2022, the site was "indexed" in Germany due to "child pornography content", temporarily removing it from Google search results for German IP addresses. In January 2023, the ban was lifted as a result of administrative errors. In March 2023,Â RoskomnadzorÂ had requested the site to delete 16 fics, containing "child pornography".Â The site was subsequentlyÂ blocked in RussiaÂ on 14 April 2023, after failing to comply with the request. A Ukrainian Twitter user claimed responsibility for the report in a deleted tweet.
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Banned in China / int_e7d2b4f7	comment	PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is banned in Afghanistan, India, Iraq, and Nepal on the grounds that it had a negative impact on the youth and, in India's case, for being distributed by Tencent following border clashes between Indian and Chinese soldiers in 2020. Nepal's ban has since been lifted.
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Banned in China / int_e7efd7dd	comment	Norway used to practice harsh film censorship, with anything too violent or immoral getting the banhammer. This included movies like Bonnie and Clyde, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1976 and Friday the 13th (1980), among others. This only intensified during the 80's when the country was struck by a Video Nasty type of hysteria, leading to many tapes being banned or censored. In 2003 all existing bans were lifted and the country hardly ever bans media anymore unless it's something blatantly illegal like underage porn or unsimulated murder.
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Banned in China / int_e824fac3	comment	The film adaptation of The Kite Runner was banned in 2007 for containing a rape scene, and fears it would exacerbate tensions between the country's ethnic groups.
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Banned in China / int_e9887932	comment	Cannibal Holocaust was banned in Australia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Singapore, and the United Kingdom at various points for is graphic violence and unsimulated animal cruelty. It briefly saw a theatrical release in the United States before being pulled due to the film's controversy. It was eventually released uncensored in Australia, Italy, and the United States, with the former two rating it R18+ and VM18 respectively, and the BBFC eventually allowed for it to be released after trimming 15 seconds from the scene of a coati being killed. Bootleg copies continue to proliferate in the Philippines, however.
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Banned in China / int_e9b01d30	comment	The uncut version of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was initially banned in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom for its graphic violence. The BBFC finally approved the uncut version in 2003 after numerous unsuccessful appeals throughout The '90s, while the former two countries eventually lifted their bans by the end of the 2000s. The film also couldn't find a distributor in the United States, despite receiving glowing praise from critics like Roger Ebert, due to the MPAA giving it an "X" rating (severely limiting the theaters it could be shown in) and announcing it was not possible for it to be cut down to an "R". This, alongside similar controversies with The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, played a significant role in the MPAA eventually replacing the "X" rating it with the "NC-17" rating.
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Banned in China / int_e9e561a0	comment	Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac was banned for having lots of sex scenes, making it, in their opinion, more porn than art.
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Banned in China / int_e9ec19e1	comment	Spec Ops: The Line is banned for showing Dubai as a devastated city left to rot under massive sandstorms. Listening to the audio logs found in the game shows that the government of the UAE and Dubai ordered a media cover-up on the increasingly dangerous and powerful sandstorms, then fled once the sandstorms grew too intense. Unlike the other examples, which the ban only applies for registered retailers to desist selling those products via their local outlets (privately owning the game or buying it online aren't illegal), the government had extended their focus for this title going far as to block the game's official website and subsequently stop the title's distribution throughout the rest of the GCC, as well as in Jordan and Lebanon.
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Banned in China / int_ea463c69	comment	The Red Lion by Maria Szepes was banned for forty years after being considered "nonconformist" by the Hungarian communist regime at the time.
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Banned in China / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy has been banned in numerous countries, including Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan, most likely due to its mature content and the Animation Age Ghetto having a strong presence. It was banned in Malaysia at one point, but the ban has been rescinded, although it now only airs in a heavily butchered form on satellite TV. According to one of the writers, the show did receive a short-lived Korean dub in South Korea before it got axed. Despite this, the show still has its animation outsourced there. Also, South Africa rescinded the ban around 2010, and aired until 2021 on FOX Africa via the South African cable provider DS TV until that channel closed ahead of the country's Disney+ launch in May 2022 (where it currently streams there). Taiwan had since lifted the ban and is currently showing on FOX Taiwan with dubs and cuts.
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Banned in China / int_f056cb29	comment	American Sniper is banned for its portrayal of Iraqis as violent terrorists.
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Banned in China / int_f0700519	comment	Children's novel The Story of Ferdinand was banned in Italy, Nazi Germany, and Spain under their respective fascist regimes because the story of a bull who doesn't want to partake in bullfighting was considered to be pacifist/communist brainwashing.
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Banned in China / int_f16adb7	comment	The Communist Party of the Russian Federation tried to get Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull banned for portraying the Soviet Union in a bad light. The film was released over their objections.
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Banned in China / int_f1c1d87a	comment	Manhunt 2 is banned in Germany, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and the United Kingdom (the only video game to be refused classification by the BBFC) due to its excessive violence. The ban in New Zealand was lifted two weeks after release, and a censored version was eventually approved in the UK after initially being rejected. The ESRB also rated the uncut version for consoles AO (Adults Only), effectively banning in from major retailers in the United States, Canada and Mexico, necessitating a censored version to get an M rating. The PC version nonetheless was released uncut in those territories.
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Banned in China / int_f4559fd1	comment	The manga Kinnikuman was banned in France because it contains a heroic swastika-bearing character. The anime saw a limited release, but only 49 out of the 137 original episodes were shown on television.
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Banned in China / int_f49aa9e5	comment	The film Night and Fog, about Nazi concentration camps, was banned from competition in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival on the demand of the West German ambassador, who feared the public might believe All Germans Are Nazis. The film also faced censorship in its native country, since some of the footage of Nazi atrocities was not actually done by Germans, but French collaborators.
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Banned in China / int_f53905a3	comment	Peter Weir's 1982 Australian film The Year of Living Dangerously, which was set in Jakarta (Indonesia's capitol) and dramatized the fall of President Sukarno, the rise of President Suharto, and the Communist coup which set it all in motion in 1965, was not shown in Indonesia until 1999, after Suharto had been forced to resign.
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Banned in China / int_f59e607f	comment	In 1999, a shootout at a SÃ£o Paulo movie theater closely resembled the first level of Duke Nukem 3D. The game was banned for that reason. Five other games were banned at the same time to prevent widespread violence (Doom, Mortal Kombat, Requiem: Avenging Angel, Blood (1997), and Postal). (The movie being shown during the shooting, Fight Club, was not banned.)
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Banned in China / int_f71bd049	comment	Hotel Rwanda is banned in Rwanda because of its heroic depiction of convicted terrorist Paul Rusesabagina, who maintains the real reason for his conviction is because the current leader of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, is a dictator who wants to silence him.
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Banned in China / int_f8713888	comment	The Economist is banned due to one of its writers insulting the Thai royal family and accusing it of abusing its power.
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Banned in China / int_f9b052c4	comment	The episode "Busted" from Brace Face was banned from Romania because its plot revolves around Sharon wearing a special bra to make her chest larger to impress a boy she has a crush on.
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Banned in China / int_fbc3684b	comment	The remake of Maniac! (1980) starring Elijah Wood was banned because of how the murders were filmed from the killer's POV, which the OFLC claimed was "potentially dangerous in the hands of the wrong person".
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Banned in China / int_fc8c44a1	comment	All Quiet on the Western Front was banned in both Austria and Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 for its anti-war and perceived anti-German messages. It was also banned in Germany between 1930 and 1931 due to violent protests staged by the Nazis, some of which were led by future Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels; it was briefly unbanned following heavy censorship. Conversely, the film was banned in Poland because it was seen as pro-German.
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Banned in China / int_fcd86271	comment	The Thai government has banned nearly every rendition of Anna and the King of Siam and The King and I ever made because the King of Siam, who is culturally seen as a divine being, is depicted as a flawed human being in that story. What's worse is that no matter how much the filmmakers rework the story, it always somehow ends up getting banned in that country. The fundamental problem here is that no matter how respectfully and positively modern filmmakers may portray the King, the basic story still implies that Thailand is a backwards country filled with people who need someone from the West to civilize them.
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Banned in China / int_fd8221d2	comment	Wikipedia was banned in Turkey on 29 April 2017, in every language, until it was finally unbanned more than two years later on 15 January 2020. Read more here.
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Banned in China / int_fdedbbb5	comment	Andi Mack was banned by the Kenyan government in 2017 for showing homosexuality.
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Banned in China / int_fe32af0b	comment	The Kids Are All Right was only allowed one print with an R21 rating, significantly limiting its theatrical release, and was entirely banned on home video.
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Banned in China / int_ff8dbf7	comment	Andrei Rublev was banned due to its promotion of artistic freedom and fighting back against oppressive governments.
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Banned in China / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The High Ground" was banned by the national broadcasters for Ireland and the United Kingdom because Data mention that Ireland was reunited in 2024 after a successful "terrorist" campaign. Not helping matters was the plot was based around a Fantastic Racism metaphor for The Troubles. It wasn't until 2006 and 2007 that the full version was broadcasted in Ireland and the UK respectively.
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Banned in China / int_ffbcb90e	comment	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was banned on account of its general subject matter. The film was inspired by Gunga Din and other Kipling Mighty Whitey stories that had become discredited within India. Steven Spielberg even tried to shoot it in India, but he couldn't get permission for this reason; he shot most of it in Sri Lanka.
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Star (Web Video) / int_18170c6f	type	Banned in China
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