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  2. Defective by Design - Wikipedia

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    Defective by Design (DBD) is a grassroots anti-digital rights management (DRM) initiative by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and CivicActions. Launched in 2006, DBD believes that DRM (which they call "digital restrictions management") makes technology deliberately defective, negatively affects digital freedoms , and is "a threat to ...

  3. Expletive deleted - Wikipedia

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    The phrase expletive deleted indicates that profanity has been censored from a text by the author or by a subsequent censor, usually appearing in place of the profanity. The phrase has been used for this purpose since at least the 1930s, [1] but became more widely used in the United States after the Watergate scandal.

  4. List of regionally censored video games - Wikipedia

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    Until Dawn – A death scene was censored in the Japanese version of the game. [47] [48] Monster Monpiece – About 40 of the 350 card images in the game were censored for sexually explicit material in the international PlayStation Vita release of the game. [49] An uncensored port was later announced to be released on Steam for PC in 2016.

  5. Banned words for 2015 - AOL

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    HOUSTON, Texas – Every year, Oxford adds words to the dictionary based on pop culture. In 2014, it was words like "humblebrag" and "binge-watch." But every year, Lake Superior State University ...

  6. List of banned video games by country - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of video games that have been censored or banned by governments of various states in the world. Governments that have banned video games have been criticized for a correlated increase in digital piracy, limiting business opportunities and violating rights. [1] [2] [3]

  7. University reveals annual list of 'banned' words - AOL

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    Northern Michigan's Lake Superior State University is moving to ban many of those words you might have Well, this is kind of the opposite. University reveals annual list of 'banned' words

  8. Euphemisms for Internet censorship in China - Wikipedia

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    Following this, the word "harmonious" itself was censored, at which point Chinese netizens began to use the word for "river crab", a near homophone for "harmonious". In a further complication of meaning, sometimes aquatic product (Chinese: 水产) is used in place of "river crab". These euphemisms are also used as verbs.

  9. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...