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Censoring an old strip?
Valdís:
--- Quote from: PHDrillSergeant on 02 May 2013, 05:57 ---There certainly are a lot of people offended by a years-old hand-drawn webcomic on the internet. Claiming stuff is "horrendously offensive" and such. While I understand that rape is a serious subject, I also think that just because someone makes a joke about it doesn't mean everyone should suddenly go into "censor it" mode. I wholeheartedly oppose censorship of any kind, and I've said before that I lose respect for people who censor their work because someone else is offended. If you don't like it, don't read it.
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That would be Jeph you're referring to, not a third party. Every single time this has been brought up it's been by one of the people getting pissy about him not liking what he wrote a decade ago, unrepresentative of him and the comic.
This was noticed and mentioned after he had already made the change, to my knowledge.
cam94509:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 28 Apr 2013, 17:18 ---
I'm arguing that both artists and the public have a moral obligation to leave art as it is.
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I'm going to have to disagree. If you were, for instance, to tell a Let's Player that they have the moral obligation not to remove or change their episodes after they were posted, I think they'd probably laugh at you. New editions of books have, for the longest time, fixed errors, and presumably other things that made the author uncomfortable. That weight has never honestly been put on the distribution of new copies by an artist before, and I'm not sure it's a reasonable one to put on them now.
Method of Madness:
New editions don't make the older editions disappear.
cam94509:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 02 May 2013, 09:40 ---New editions don't make the older editions disappear.
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No, and Jeph's new edition doesn't destroy all the book editions out there, nor any versions you have saved to your computer or printed out already.
Method of Madness:
But new editions acknowledge that they are new.
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