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The Maus
Maus
2017 · Film · 90 min
Directed by Gerardo Herrero Pereda
Alex and Selma are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Suddenly, Selma feels a mysterious force is chasing them.
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Was just a light-hearted joke about JRE. I was first thinking this post is about the Java Runtime Environment.
Considering censorship ... not sure if it is, seeing that Rogan also seems to condemn some language he used in those episodes now. Maybe it's just a change of heart :) How do you know?
The link was just a slight quip, about what the biggest, recent news about censorship for me was: if you are a school teacher in McMinn County, Tennessee, you are not allowed to use "Maus" anymore in class. There are really worse things going on than a couple of old episodes with profanity being taken down by spotify or by Rogan himself.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/the-inside-story-of-the-banning-of-maus-its-dumber-than-you-think/
I read the first edition of Maus when I was in college. It was the first graphic novel I ever recognized as such.
I watched a lot of films about the history of the United States and World War II when I was in high school, but the first-hand accounts of concentration camp life did not make the impact on me that Maus did.
Looking back, it was the first media that I can think of that reimagined a terrible historical fact in a way that I found respectful to the victims.
> displaying a Swastika is perfectly legal if you don't "objectively" use it to "promote (the) national socialism".
It seems that only applies if your work falls clearly within a few categories of exceptions. For example, Wolfenstein, a game about a Jewish commando fighting against the Nazis, was censored in Germany to comply with the law.
> "In Germany, we've removed all Nazi symbols and references. Unlike films and other works of art, video games in Germany are forbidden to use such symbols and references as they are classified in Germany as toys and not media art." The illegal display of Nazi imagery is punishable by three years in prison in Germany. (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27488254)
Even "Maus: A Survivor's Tale" struggled to be published uncensored. They eventually succeeded in convincing the culture ministry to allow publication, but it's not enough to be anti-Nazi.
Maus is pretty strongly anti-nazi of course because it's told from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor. It would be like banning Schindler's List from a list of films available to prisons. Maybe it is banned in some places.