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Marvel to launch "Create Your Own Comic" app, but "social issues" and "alternative lifestyle advocacy" are banned
Marvel is launching a website that allows visitors to create their own comics using the company's pantheon of famous characters. They insist, however, that certain topics not be addressed: social issues, death, farts, and so forth. You wonder: if the trap is so obvious, why walk into it?
Here are some highlights from the very long list of no-nos:
Content that could frighten or upset young children or the parents of young children.
Prescription drugs or over-the-counter medication, vitamins, and dietary supplements.
Contraceptives
Suggestive or revealing images, including bare midriffs
Sensationalism, which is not defined but elucidated with the examples killer bees, gossip, aliens, scandal, etc.
Obscenity, bad or offensive language or proxies for bad or offensive language. E.g. no X@#%!
Noises related to bodily functions.
No politics, including alternative lifestyle advocacies
Death
Misleading language
A copy or parody of current or past Marvel advertising creative
Any controversial topics, including social issues
Double entendres
Any amusement parks that arent Disney amusement parks
Any movie studios that arent affiliated with Marvel
Guns
I can't wait to play with this.
https://twitter.com/alexdecampi/status/946554968504438798
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