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Dungeater posted...

is it censorship when Insomniac remastered Spider-Man and changed Peter's face? like i dont get why a developer self-selecting what a re-release of theirs has is being regarded as "censorship"

i think you know me enough to know that's a genuine question and not a gotcha

He probably won't reply so I will to some degree. Merriam Webster defines "censor" as "to suppress or delete as objectionable". Did anyone consider Peter Parker's face "objectionable"? I suppose given some of the replies in this thread, people considered the erotica category in Dead Rising as "objectionable" even though I heard literally no complaints about it until now. Synonyms provided include the phrase clean up which they define as "free from offensive treatment of sexual subjects and from the use of obscenity" which I believe is self explanatory, bowdlerize which is defined as "to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar", and expurgate which is defined as "to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous" which I don't think Pete's face is considered vulgar or morally harmful while Erotic content is considered such by certain individuals. None of the above mention the need for an external government body as a requirement for it to be considered censorship.