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

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    I could look this up but what is with germany and blood censorship?

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      It’s just different values. I could ask the same about the US and nudity. In German media, blood and violence is fine, but it’s considered a topic that you need to be able to handle, so you need to have a certain age, depending on how gruesome that is.

      Tbh, I’m European and therefore biased, but the way the united states have no problem with people harming other in media but being offended by something like “bodies” or “sex” does seem a little weird. Like, if my kids normalised harming others I’d be much more concerned than if they normalised making love.

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        Watching TV:

        Here in the EU it is offensive/inappropriate to kill people.

        There in the US it is offensive/inappropriate to make people.

        So the difference is whether to make love or to make war. Personally I’d rather be a bononbo than a chimpanzee.

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        Little story to that point: In 2000 I flew NWA from Europe to the states. That time they still showed the movie on a big screen in the front of the cabin. The movie that day was Gladiator.

        The airline did not censor gore and violence even though children were also flying.

        But of course there was no nudity to speak of in that movie at all.

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          There is nudity in the original, when emperor rapes his sister(?) and I believe there’s other scenes as well. They usually showed the made for TV edit so that’s probably why you didn’t see.

          Their solution for kids was to not give us headphones lol.