Getting kids jokes past the adult censors
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Author of kids show Gravity Falls recalls the kind of comments he got on his script by the Standards & Practices team and how he had to fight back to keep things the way they were written:
https://nitter.net/_AlexHirsch/status/1537314312926003201
A couple of videos and pictures in that thread. It's better with the sound, but here's just one:
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@Dragoon I first thought that the S in S&P stands for soulless, but then realized that this was Disney. Soullessness is unlikely to be restricted to just one specific department there.
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You chose to write for Disney.
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I’m honestly confused how this didn’t get caught at any stage.
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@DogsB thank goodness they named the domain in the article. I wouldn't have amusement without it!
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@DogsB said in Getting kids jokes past the adult censors:
I’m honestly confused how this didn’t get caught at any stage.
From what I read elsewhere, it worked fine when the bags were originally manufactured and sent to stores. Since then, though, the domain registration expired, and whoever was supposed to renew it didn't.
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@Dragnslcr said in Getting kids jokes past the adult censors:
@DogsB said in Getting kids jokes past the adult censors:
I’m honestly confused how this didn’t get caught at any stage.
From what I read elsewhere, it worked fine when the bags were originally manufactured and sent to stores. Since then, though, the domain registration expired, and whoever was supposed to renew it didn't.
Should've spent the extra $100 and registered it for 10 years
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@DogsB's linked article said:
At the time of writing, the domain ... can be seen serving Chinese adult content but only on mobile devices.
I, uh,
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@Atazhaia I thought the same but then
:At the time of writing, the domain [...] can be seen serving Chinese adult content but only on mobile devices. [...] When accessed from a computer, the website shows a "temporarily unavailable" notice citing one or more violations of the "relevant regulations" of the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Now I'm imagining some
thinking that if a report is made against their website, the regulators (and/or ISPs or whatever) is likely to assign the ticket to some drone who will first open the website to see what it looks like. As said drone is likely on some corporate desktop computer, they'll see the notice, assume that the website got clamped down in some other way since the ticket was issued, and close it.This is either very dumb or very smart, I'm not quite sure.
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@remi yeah - all it does it detect if it's mobile or not from the user agent, and if it's mobile it uses iframe to display the porn site and if it's not it uses the iframe to display some generic landing page on a totally different domain hosted on Alibaba Cloud.
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@loopback0
sounds more like a ploy to circumcise the Porn Wall
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@DogsB said in Getting kids jokes past the adult censors:
I’m honestly confused how this didn’t get caught at any stage.
In my (limited) experience, the people designing stuff for print sometimes have very little contact with the people running the web end of things. They just get a URL from someone and stick it on, if they remember to update their placeholder text at all. Or just pick a URL they like, and then once it's out there they realize that they should tell the IT guys that something should get put there.
But someone actually typing the URL on the packaging to test it? And typing it in exactly the same, without accidentally introducing or fixing typos and typing the path in the same case as what's printed? Only if you're lucky, or have an IT side that manages to inject themselves into the process early.
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@pcooper said in Getting kids jokes past the adult censors:
But someone actually typing the URL on the packaging to test it?
I believe it was a QR code.
