Ok, here’s the game. I’ll give you several statements*, and you guess whether they came from the 1954 American Comics Code or from the 2009 statement (released on 3/30 as a highly suspect gift to Chris upon his twenty-sixth birthday) from the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and TV. I’ll put the answers in the comments.
1. Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden.
2. Deliberate displays in which private parts are only obscured by limbs or small coverings are forbidden.
3. Respect for parents, the moral code, and for honorable behavior shall be fostered. A sympathetic understanding of the problems of love is not a license for moral distortion.
4. Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
5. Sexually suggestive or provocative content that leads to sexual thoughts is forbidden.
6. Disparaging or mocking depictions of leaders, heroes, important historical figures, and major domestic and foreign literary works and their main characters are forbidden.
7. All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
8. Intense scenes of murder, bloodshed, violence, suicide, kidnapping, drug use, gambling, and the occult shall not be permitted.
9. Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
*I changed up some of the grammar so the answers wouldn’t be immediately obvious.
For the full text of the Comics Code, go here.
For another piece in the puzzle of why youtube has disappeared in China and the source of all my pre-translated Chinese quotes, go here.
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7/9! I’m friggin’ AWESOME!
But then again, I had just read the SARFT statement AND the Comics Code statement at your behest literally minutes before taking this quiz. So perhaps 7/9 is actually a fail for me.
Not a fail. There is no such thing as a fail on this couch, where we’re both sitting right now, communicating via the internet. Behold, the future!
ahh the old comics code funny now that its lost its teeth.
For some reason i had 3 and 7 memorized word for word.
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