Censorship in media

1.)  Examples of censorship happening with Disney plus. What and why? 

1.) "Song of the south" has been made to not go on the Disney+, because it is seen as racist to African American people and shows how they were oppressed around the 1940s and earlier even. Because of this, it was removed from the Disney+ streaming service because of the "offensive" nature of the film.

"Dumbo" was also edited and censored from the original version, because of the crows which were represented as black men using black voice actors and even calling one of the crows "Jim Crow" which in those times was a derogatory term for black men. Also, the crows were very upbeat and almost perceived as cackling crows which put bad lighting on the black people, coming across as racist to the public. 

2.) Examples of censorship in other countries

2.) Other examples of censorship are places such as China, North Korea, and even in the UK with Sister Streetfighter. 

China - China now only allows 34 foreign films into the cinemas each year, mostly from Hollywood, this shows their massive censorship of movies. One such film which was allowed to get into cinemas but was censored because of nudity, this film was the shape of water, and it was only allowed to come in after the scene of nudity was censored and the woman whose back was turned to the camera was naked and you could see a bareback, this was then censored and changed to her wearing a black tube dress to cover her up and was then allowed to be screened in Chinese cinemas.

North Korea - They did not allow the movie "The Interview" to be screened in the cinemas or on disk, because of the way it depicted their country in a bad light as well as their leader Kim-Jong Un.

UK (Great Britain) - The Movie "Sister Streetfighter" was censored in the UK because of a poster in the villain's lair which showed a young child being sexualized with an adult. This was very uncomfortable for viewers as it was for around 30 seconds in the background and crossed a very clear and obviously wrong line, this then meant that it was censored and removed in the UK. 

3.) Points for/against censorship as presented in this clip - should art be censored?

3.) For:

- If you censor art you are changing someone's own work, which you don't have the right to do.

- You are changing the history, almost erasing that piece out of everything which can lead to people making the same mistake because of lack of education. 

- If it is their own it is acceptable but if it is from someone else then this is not ok. 

Against:

- I believe if it clearly crosses a line such as anything inappropriate involving children this should be able to be censored because this is clearly wrong and violating an innocent child. The counterargument for this though is that where does it stop? And who gets to choose what becomes censored? 

"if something is wrong but it is part of history, should it be cut out as to not offend people today?" 

- I believe no. This is because it is that person's art, you actually have no right to change it, however, if the artist retracts their work that is acceptable however because they should have the right to do this. Also, it is a part of history and you can not just erase it as it erases education which could allow similar issues to arise because people were not seen the things not to do and see the line not to cross. It de-educates people. I believe there should be disclaimers in this instance about how this may have been acceptable in this time period etc...