h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A gap I've noticed when searching for potential links when subbing entries. There is nothing on censorship, other than an article on film classification. I'm thinking censorship of literature, film, music and theatre, which might mean several different entries. Sadly, it's not an area I know much about, so I am therefore challenging h2g2 to come up with something!

I could probably help out a bit with regards to stage censorship, but would not feel comfortable starting such an entry from scratch. The others are completely beyond what I could do.

David

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B

I was asking for that wasn't I?

Always happy to oblige, David.

You do have a point though.

There are so many kinds of censorship - the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of plays for example seemed to be a matter of protecting the public's morality and not giving them sexual ideas above (or below) their station. Think of Lady Chatterley.

Political censorship is a different thing altogether, and one that we are about to enter into again with the govt's proposals that it is going to be illegal to say that you can understand what forces go into the emergance of suicide bombers.

I think the subject is one which it would be timely to tackle.

But not by me.

B

Maybe we could have an entry titled 'Censorship' which consists solely of the standard 'this entry has broken the house rules in some way' notice?

Do it, sling it into the AWW, and see what happens, David!

(My money is on a sense of humour failure meaning that it doesn't make it through the system - this one didn't: A2929115 . More oddly, its sister entry A2973855 didn't either).

B

That entry already exists in several official copies. You just haven't seen where they are (and probably haven't seriously looked).

Which entry, SEF, the Censorship one, or the Fashion one? I haven't seriously looked for either, and I don't have the time to do so, so I for one would appreciate the links if you have seriously looked for them and found them.

B

Pay more attention, U500175 (currently going by just B). In this case that means to the thread's tree structure of posts. Since you don't appear to have bothered to comprehend what was actually on offer, I doubt you really want it. However, here's one example anyway on the off-chance that you do: A516511

We've all seen those messages from time to time, but B and I were thinking of deliberately having one of them on a page as an ironic comment. With the title 'Censorship'. But I don't have the bottle...

SEF, I am currently using the Plain Skin which gives a lot less supplementary information than other skins. There is no link to the BBC Front page, no link to Search or Advanced Saerch and no simple availability for the tree structure of threads.

I find remarks like "since you do not appear to have bothered to comprehend" to be presumptive, agressive and offensive.

You have made assumptions implying some kind of moral failing on my part, which I find odd, when in fact the problem is that for reasons which are nothing to do with you I am using a skin which does not give me access to the full functionality of the site.

500175 currently going just by B

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Psst! B, don't feed the creature that lives under bridges.

Makes you wonder why they're on pre-mod . . .


az

>> Incidentally, that information *is* available on plain too - in the "This is a reply to" link.

That's a fair cop, guv. I'll 'old me 'and up to it. You've got me banged to rights an' all.

I am too lazy to reply to the rest of your astonishingly insulting post, and too lazy to follow the discussion further so I'll unsub now.

David, do please let me know if anyone does write the sort of entry you discribe. I'll be curious to read it.

B

A679016 - this has been hanging around for a few years, and it even mentions Lady Chatterly! Is this the sort of thing you were thinking of?

I'm happy to have it updated if people want to make it a bigger/better entry on censorship, or include it in something else. Can't speak for Blues Shark, but I shouldn't imagine it would be a problem.

Ooh, , that's a great entry and was the sort of thing I was looking for, but somehow failed to find. Not sure why I didn't find it. Very embarrassed, particularly as my real-life role is basically information-finding.

I think it's wonderful just as it is. A series of similar entries on other aspects of censorship would probably be the way to go, rather than absorbing this into a giant entry.

David

I've got A4225114 lying around, should anyone want to use any of it.