In anticipation of the coming wave of censorship, I’d like to develop a list of subversive content that might disappear off of streaming services.
As these services and broadcast networks are removing content from their catalogs, what kinds of things do you think might disappear?
I wonder how granular the censorship will be too, for example, will they start censoring individual episodes of Star Trek?
At what point do you think they’re going to come for Mr Rogers neighborhood or Sesame Street?
We’ve already seen books being rewritten to remove certain (offensive) words or sections being removed from re-editions, ebooks being removed from our reading device entirely and, obviously, we’ve all seen books being censored in some (school) libraries. Ditto for some comics. It’s a bit less known (?) but a few movies have already been edited too (removing scenes that today’s audience would consider offensive, or adding scenes (like in the original trilogy of Star Wars: all new releases includes those added scenes). With IA there would be no difficulty to edit a single scene, or even just some part of it, say to remove something/someone now considered offensive. We’re now really into Orwell’s 1984.
Imho, the only way to fight against that trend is in owning physical copies of whatever content you want to preserve. That’s why I quit watching streaming platforms and reading ‘purchased’ ebooks and went back to DVDs/physical books that I fully own and that can’t be remotely edited/removed from my home by anyone.
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This is exactly what I’m talking about.
Can you think of any media that has been edited or will be edited?
I love archiving stuff and whether it’s the aired only once episode of Rocco’s modern Life, several episodes of it’s always Sunny in Philadelphia, the TNG episode “Ensign Ro”, or anything else!
I’m wondering what is on your list of stuff you know to have been or will be censored?