Some use encryption (of the sort used to protect charge card numbers) to thwart the censors.
Apparently censors were unable to look beyond gender to celebrate the stability of this family unit.
Today, traffic speed is measured with censors embedded into the highway in many parts of California.
"We are our own censors, " says Manny Ayala, director of programming for Discovery Asia.
Peerzada acknowledges he cannot now predict what the reaction of the censors will be.
The censors judged it to be "exceptionally justified by the context of the film".
"A Separation" is an aberration, a flawless piece of cinema that somehow slipped past the censors unscathed.
In the old days, the censors banned an Iris Murdoch novel with a Picasso nude on the cover.
The networks still deploy dozens of in-house censors to comply with FCC rules.
But as with the majority of Relativity films going forward, it was produced with China (and its censors) in mind.
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He will find out whether his hopes are well founded when the final print goes before the censors this month.
Yet Egypt's leading film critic, Mostafa Darwish, believes there is truth to the charge that the censors remain too lenient.
Should the censors legitimise illicitly made digital films by granting them screen permits, or risk driving their creators further underground?
The studio made minor changes to satisfy censors and on Friday said it would be rereleased in China on May 12.
Does violence presented in a fantasy context get an easier ride from the censors than that presented in a dramatic setting?
Company officials say such programs are often on a five-second delay, and censors are on hand to bleep any offensive language.
Honestly, Apple just sits back and counts the money, without having to worry overmuch about being editors, censors, or arbiters of quality.
Censors reportedly took four months to examine Syriana before its UAE release.
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The aggressive expansion is attracting U.S. filmmakers who want to tap the fast-growing market with China-friendly themes that make government censors happy.
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Last March, Weibo CEO Charles Chao told FORBES it maintains a staff of 100 censors, though outsiders peg that number much higher.
This after the film has been cleared by official censors, and the high court has thrown out moves to ban the film from being screened.
Domestic film producers, like Li Peisen, the chairman of Orange Sky Entertainment, say pleasing censors is common sense and part of doing business in China.
Tudou had to shut down for a day in 2008 in an apparent attempt to show censors the company was serious about monitoring its own content.
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Paramount Pictures is planning to co-produce parts of "Transformers 4" in China and it has tweaked its coming "World War Z" in order to not offend censors there.
But the art-censors at Shanghai's cultural bureau applied the stoppers.
Dancers aren't the only targets of the court censors.
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