Important Terms/Facts
Thai Movie Topic
Microsoft Topic
Nicole Arbour Topic
Bing Topic
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What is censorship?
Censorship- Blocking inappropriate parts or content that can be harmful or to mature for some viewers
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What type of content in the film made people want it to be censored?
It was violent
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How many requests did Microsoft receive to remove such content? A. Over 2,000 B. Over 4,500 C. Over 3,500
C. Over 3,500 people requested that Microsoft would remove this type of material.
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What does Nicole do for a living?
She is a comedian and famous YouTuber
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What language is having trouble accessing information out of their country?
The chinese
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What is fat-shaming? Is it real?
Fat-shaming is real and was made up by obese people. The term refers to making fun of people or degrading them for being fat.
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What was the film about?
About a mysterious sickness. This soon led to violence which made people believe it should be censored.
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Who sent most of these requests?
The European Court of Justice
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What did Nicole lose from the making of this video?
She lost a roll in a movie about overweight people.
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Who is denying this problem and what are they saying it is?
Microsoft and they are telling us it is just a technical error.
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Why do people censor things online?
To make sure certain content that is to mature doesn't allow certain viewers to see it.
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Do the majority of people think it should or shouldn't be censored?
For now most people believe it doesn't need to be censored, but opinions might change after the Film Festival.
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What services also requested these changes?
OneDrive and MSN
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What did people do in response to her video?
YouTubers went on a rage about how rude and disgraceful her videos were.
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Other than links, what else are they blocking?
Chinese social media accounts and accessing logins.
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What types of things can be censored?
Movies, books, and videos and more. Anything with inappropriate part can usually be censored.
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What affect did this movie have on the military government?
It concerned them that the issue of censorship is growing everyday and that we must be cautious.
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Why did Microsoft not want to do this?
The requests would become to overwhelming.
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About how many views did the video receive?
Over 30 million views. On YouTube the comments were disabled.
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What is the difference between typing in chinese in China then outside of China in the search engine?
Outside of China certain information is blocked and censored.
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True or false? Nicole's video on Youtube was took off and marked as offensive and was then soon put back on again after consideration.
True! Youtube had a lot to consider between the comment and complaints to people arguing that the video was meant to be funny. After two weeks, they decided to put her video back online.
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How did the director defend himself and the movie?
He told us that everything in the movie was close to what happened in real life and it should not be tampered with.
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What were they removing the content from?
The Microsoft search engine.
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In the video, what type of people are she talking about?
Obese people who are affecting their own health.
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Why is this such an important matter?
It affects the chinese people outside of China by not letting them in on info from where they come from.