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Interestingly, magazines that are produced inside the country seem to be able to get away with a lot more, and aren't subjected to the big black marker, either.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Gisele Bunchen covers up: H&M ads altered for Gulf's sensitive audience
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Interestingly, magazines that are produced inside the country seem to be able to get away with a lot more, and aren't subjected to the big black marker, either.
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Is that actually black marker? i.e does someone actually manually censor each edition of every magazine?
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Censorship is arcane enough without an astoundingly inefficient system of censorship to add to the stupidity.
Yes, they do! I have magazines sent over from the US, so it's always shocking when I buy one and come across the big bad black marker.
Hi there,
My name is Aaisha Lakar and i work in H&M PR department- Middle East.
Would really appreciate if you could send me you email address for further communication.
aaisha.laskar@alshaya.com
I totally agree with this kind of censorship, we don't want the girls belonging to our culture to become the average western slut. Way to go censors!
Keep your culture. Fight globalization.
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