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- anime@lemmy.ml
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- anime@lemmy.ml

The only ones that kept the original: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ghostintheshell.section9/posts/10168265956373438/
The USSR is now Volgarena and the US is now the MAG Union.
Interesting comment from under this youtube video that gets into the censorship:
Golantoruという国名は日本語じゃないと分かりにくいかもしれない、GolanHeightsをToru(奪う)という造語だ MAGAllianceは言わなくても分かるよね 制裁する側のアメリカに居ると体感できないかもしれないが 他の国にとって今イスラエル周辺を話題にするのは大変危険だ アメリカ大統領がICC所長の日本人にした事を考えれば、SARUの選択肢は先見性があったと言える いつ米国の制裁を受けるか分からないのだから
machine translation renders it as:
The country name “Golantoru” might be hard to understand unless you know Japanese—it’s a made-up word combining “Golan Heights” with “Toru” (to seize). I’m sure you all know what MAGAlliance is without me having to say it. Living in the U.S., which is imposing sanctions, you might not feel it firsthand, but for other countries, discussing the situation around Israel right now is extremely dangerous. Considering what the U.S. president did to the Japanese head of the ICC, you could say SARU’s decision was far-sighted. After all, you never know when the U.S. might impose sanctions.


I wouldn’t call it censorship when you don’t want to get sued or bombed on for making a prediction so well in advance about countries seeing us more expendable than androids. We are seeing GitS play exactly how capitalists intended, and you had three generations to prevent this dystopia from occuring.
Yet here we are, four apartheid genocides into the 21c, and not a damn change.
I agree with @cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com in the /₀🧵: so what? Are you just noticing artists have had to not mention WIPO signing nations direct names and creatively name them something else in their art? Get creative, luddite.
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I now see what this about. Your LA Spanish localizer decided to change it back to Israel, and wants to get Luigi’ed. Good for them.