Censorship - Progressive Rock Music Forum

It's simple, really. Nudity can set off content filters which will make the ads less likely to be seen. Google doesn't like that. It has nothing to do with the intent or artistic nature of the covers. In all honesty, though, I think many (not all) of the effected covers are lacking in class. That's just my opinion.

Edited by Second Life Syndrome - October 23 2013 at 14:38

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For crissakes, this is a music site, not a seed-fest porn site - it should be left alone

I have followed the discussion on this topic but I don't recall reading anything about members having to pixelate cover images when adding an album. Anyway, I've added Civico 23 to the database but can't add the album because I can't blur the image. Feching annoying.

Edited by seventhsojourn - November 19 2013 at 06:02

It's an artistic drawing - if you find it titillating then pixelate it, otherwise use it as the artist intended.

There are a number of freeware, online and cloud-based picture editors if you don't have one.

What?

Using Lunapic: http://www160.lunapic.com/editor/ - a quick attempt with just a slight blur applied:

Edited by yam yam - November 19 2013 at 06:59

I find the Octopus on her head kind of erotic, and what's that guy in the boat doing? Looks like a bit of manual manipulation to me. Better just pixelate the whole thing.

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seventhsojourn wrote:

Dean wrote:

It's an artistic drawing - if you find it titillating then pixelate it, otherwise use it as the artist intended.

There are a number of freeware, online and cloud-based picture editors if you don't have one.

< => I confirm that the image is not sexually suggestive with adult or mature content.

This includes, but is not limited to images containing:

Strategically covered nudity
Sheer or see-through clothing
Lewd or provocative poses
Close-ups of breasts, buttocks, or crotches

I am not going to fall foul of the censor by trying to second-guess what it deems sexually suggestive. Because I have seen some ridiculous examples of censorship following this development e.g. cow udders being blurred... and no, I don't get titillated or aroused by them either. Thanks for suggesting I might get titillated by that album cover though. Pathetic. I ask a simple question and that's the kind of reply I get from you.

Not sure what provoked this response from you. I gave a honest answer based upon the information we have - if you find the image titillating then blur it, otherwise use it unblurred - that's not ironic or sarcastic or insulting or demeaning or any thing else - it is the only f**king criteria we have to judge whether GoogleAds will take exception to an album cover so it's the only f**king criteria we can f**king use, if you as a f**king human being find the image to be offensive, provocative, or titiliating or something you would feel embarrassed showing a younger person or your employer then f**king blur it or leave it to someone with f**king better f**king judgement.

AND No, the blurred cows udders in Nogbad's avatar are not an example of ridiculous censorship - it was his own doing as an ironic/sarcastic protest against the censorship This is also true of all the deliberate blurring in many other avatars, including that of three Admins (David, Keshiro and myself). We are all using ridiculous irony to show how stupid the whole thing is.

seventhsojourn wrote:

And I already tried the freeware but can't get it to work... my stupidity no doubt. The point in my post was that I wasn't aware members were to do this... I thought Admin/max was doing the pixellating.

Think again.

Edited by Dean - November 19 2013 at 07:52

What?

octopus-4 wrote:

Cherry Vanilla's back on Pros And Cons of hitch-hiking was the most relevant thing of the whole album. Once it's pixelated what remains? Big smile

Just the "cons".

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HolyMoly wrote:

octopus-4 wrote:

Cherry Vanilla's back on Pros And Cons of hitch-hiking was the most relevant thing of the whole album. Once it's pixelated what remains? Big smile

Just the "cons".

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