Something funny I found about DC's censorship policy.

[Chapel]

Gotta love the DCU, they can have decapitations, maimings, rapes - of both men (Starman and Nightwing) and women (Sue Dibney), someone having their neck broken, several scenes of implied torture (a woman having her face burned with a iron and a man having his eyes pinned open with Cayenne pepper poured in them), a teenaged girl torured to death, another walking around with on clothes for nearly an entire issue (the new Supergirl) and a woman shot through the spine, stripped and then photographed but the harshed swear-words they can have are: Pissed, ***** and ******* (which is sometimes censored).


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[JX141]

Their policy does seem a little off, but dude nightwing was raped?

[cv_otaku]

Um, Starman (Jack Knight) was raped by the Mist's daughter in the first story arc. It led to the child that led to the greatest ending of any series...ever.

Nightwing was raped by Tarantula, I believe, after she killed Blockbuster. I only occasionally read Nightwing after Grayson took it over, so I'm not sure if it happened before that.

[Magneto X]

We can figure out what they actually care about by what is censored. It's not about avoiding content that make average people uncomfortable or promoting thoughtful writing or protecting children. It is about: doing what is conventional, cheap and easy in order to appear like their comics are protecting children / not being too uncomortable, whether or not the policy is blatantly overinclusive (censoring harmless stuff) or blatantly underinclusive (letting lots of harmful content through). But the policy on the website is the same. You can talk call a comic character a savage or a sexpuppet or a retard and you can discuss stories about rape, abuse or say Wolverine should have decapitated all of the X-Women, for examples, but as soon as you call someone a dumb *** or even comment that comic characters with such large bosoms would usually have larger ***es, well then you're automatically going to be censored, whether you're civil or not. But now don't we all feel like we're civilized and protecting each other? It's about convention, not protection and not wisdom. But what are you going to do? It's easy and gets the uptights off their backs.

[JX141]

Um, Starman (Jack Knight) was raped by the Mist's daughter in the first story arc. It led to the child that led to the greatest ending of any series...ever.

Nightwing was raped by Tarantula, I believe, after she killed Blockbuster. I only occasionally read Nightwing after Grayson took it over, so I'm not sure if it happened before that.

Thanks

and for magneto x yeah that definitely makes me feel "civilised" and "protected" drips sarcasm

[Justin Byrd]

We can figure out what they actually care about by what is censored. It's not about avoiding content that make average people uncomfortable or protecting children. It is about: doing what is conventional, cheap and easy in order to appear like their comics are protecting children / not being too uncomortable, whether or not the policy is blatantly overinclusive (censoring harmless stuff) or blatantly underinclusive (letting lots of harmful content through). But the policy on the website is the same. You can talk call a comic character a savage or a sexpuppet or a retard and you can discuss stories about rape, abuse or decapitation, but as soon as you call someone a dumb *** or even comment that comic characters with such large bosoms would usually have larger ***es, then you're automatically censored, whether you're civil or not. But now don't we all feel like we're civilized and protecting each other? It's about convention, not protection and not wisdom. But what are you going to do? It's easy and gets the uptight's off their backs.


When showing these issues like rape or violence, it is handled in an adult manner. TV shows like Law and Order SVU has that stuff, but they are still censored to say certain things. Don't blame the company, blame the censors.

[T.C. Johnson]

Um, Starman (Jack Knight) was raped by the Mist's daughter in the first story arc.

It wasn't the first story arc, it was several story arcs after.

[Magneto X]

It's a good point about Law & Order (and the Superbowl, SNL and such) but although Congress can legally censor network TV - because they own the public airwaves those shows use - comic and website swearword policies are purely private decisions. Can't blame the guberment.

[Justin Byrd]

It's a good point about Law & Order (and the Superbowl, SNL and such) but although Congress can legally censor network TV - because they own the public airwaves those shows use - comic and website swearword policies are purely private decisions. Can't blame the guberment.
But it still is a similar medium, and I'm sure there would be far more outcry by showing nudity or swearing. They never show any rape, and the violence isn't nearly as bad as it could be.

It's just the way it works man, don't blame the company.

[Magneto X]

Whoa, I'm not a fan for seeing rape and gore in comics (although you can find those kinds of comics, I'm sure).

I just think that maybe the unwavering reliance of companies (like DC) to the ***ing out of a three letter word we all know and use isn't the wisest of all policies. And that whether such automatic and word-based (instead of idea-based) self-censoring is effectively serving their purpose unless their purpose is to just do something that's easy and conventional.

Comic writers can imply all they want but, to mention it, they have to sneak in a reference in foreign language to suggest that Dani and Rhane from the new mutants were -gasp- lovers? They bleeped the word "sex" out of George Michael's song, not knowing it was about monogamy. And as if that made kids think about it less. And a teacher kicked a student out for wearing a "billabong" shirt, not knowing what that word meant either. Nowadays kids know probably 40 words for pot. And for each one bleeped, they'll invent a few more. I just don't think it's workable as a policy.

And I remember this Tom Petty song the radio stations would bleep. It went:
"Let's get ... to the point, ... let's roll ... another BRNMFZ!"

That bleeping kept some kids from smoking pot? Well, I wouldn't have noticed the word if it hadn't been bleeped. But since it was, I had to know what it was and, then, what it meant. Convention has been the guiding principle, not effectiveness.

[Magnus2k]

Their policy does seem a little off, but dude nightwing was raped?

Depends on your definition of rape. Tarantula took advantage of him, and had sex with him while he was at a very, very vunerable point. But, I dont think he ever actually said "no" or "stop" and by law, I dont know if thats rape. But, he may have, been awhile since I read that issue.

[Justin Byrd]

Depends on your definition of rape. Tarantula took advantage of him, and had sex with him while he was at a very, very vunerable point. But, I dont think he ever actually said "no" or "stop" and by law, I dont know if thats rape. But, he may have, been awhile since I read that issue.
Don't have to say that. If you aren't in the right state of mind (e.g. you're drunk) and later you realize you didn't want to have sex, it's still rape. She took advantage of his state, therefore it was rape because he really wasn't in a place to say "no." That's the law.