I do mean stuff like removed scenes from international airings, replacing objects like cigarettes or vine with any other objects.

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    This is in China, not so long ago 2019 or so… You can scan your TV and pay like 3 dollars a month or something usd for full access … Anyway, watching gladiator. The opening scene with the battle. For some reason it was cut (loads of films are cut to shit there) like in between the opening battle scene. Like man on horse calling for war… Cut to… dead people after battle… Might not have been that exactly, but there were a good few minutes cut at least and i never understood why, cos that the rest of the film was intact more or less and that scene alone didn’t have much bearing. In that regard, censorship doesn’t do much because you can’t just redact random little bits out of context

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      I like to think there was some guy in China working in the Censorship Bureau who was like “damn this is a kick ass movie but I gotta prove to my bosses I’m hard at work” so they chopped out a little inconsequential bit in the beginning and let it ride