[patejam]

So a couple things (From the US perspective):

1. Copyright, trademarks, and patents are a pretty weak argument for "censorship" IMO. But I guess I see where you're coming from. There are also many "fair-use" exceptions for these that make it less "censorship" and more "preventing profit on other people's ideas".

2. "US outright ban any casual religious reference because it offend some believers, resulting modifying some manga/anime/game" -- Can you give an example? This seems to go directly against first amendment rights.

3. "national security" -- There have been many cases where the government will work with press to attempt to stop them from releasing information that would damage national security. There have also been many cases where the press has not listened, and they're allowed to do that. What specifically are you talking about here? Direct theft of government property/information is illegal, but I would hardly call that censorship. NDAs I guess are censorship, but they are an agreement between two parties, not the government deciding arbitrarily what to censor.

4. "ex-political party symbol" -- absolutely not banned in the US.

5. Okay the last one is a fair example of censorship. I'm not familiar with the US laws on that one and frankly I don't want to find out...

[judge2020]

Also, trademarks just had a supreme court decision that makes it so they can't deny "immoral"/"scandalous" trademarks since it was subjective and up to the trademark officer on whether or not something was immoral/scandalous.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court...

[Faark]

> 2. "US outright ban any casual religious reference because it offend some believers, resulting modifying some manga/anime/game" -- Can you give an example? This seems to go directly against first amendment rights.

I also would love to see some example and an not aware of cases were stuff was changed due to laws. There is self-censorship, as e.g. the Spice and Wolf anime trying very hard not to use christian symbols for the religion obviously modeled after Christianity. This kinda makes the target audience kinda look bad, but that's their choice and totally fine.

[ezoe]

Its rare the US government order the censorship. The problem is publisher self-censorship it because it may disturb some religious people.

[jjeaff]

Well, that has nothing to do with US laws and censorship.

Also, it's not "rare" that the US censors mention of religion. It is completely unheard of in our modern history.

[ezoe]

> Can you give an example? This seems to go directly against first amendment rights.

Like I said, many manga/anime/games were modified to remove any casual use of religious symbol when released in US. These days, major products don't contain these beforehand if it's famous enough to expect US release.

[jjeaff]

There is about zero chance that was done due to US laws or censorship.

Most likely, the publishers themselves removed it to avoid controversy and sell more anime.

[patejam]

You specifically said that the "US outright ban[s]" it, which is incorrect. Private companies can change whatever they want to sell more of their product. That's not censorship, that's just knowing your target audience.