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[[Image:CWCstalin1.png|thumb|General Secretary of the True and Honest Sonichism Party, Christian Weston Chandler, seeks out and eliminates all reactionary [[Liquid Chris|Liquidist]]-[[Clyde Cash|Cashist]]-[[BlueSpike|Spikist]] tendencies.]]


As a result of his massive [[ego]], [[Chris]] is very insecure about others' opinions regarding him and [[Sonichu Comic|his work]]. This has led to him '''censoring''' out various comments and remarks from [[trolls]] and innocent bystanders alike.
==Origins==
In the [[Mailbag]], Chris's desire for censorship stems from his belief that since it is the "Letters to the Editor" section of his website, he should have complete editorial control over it. Chris believes that such behavior is commonplace, as he accused [[Alec Benson Leary]] of doing the same thing in his Mailbags. He is unaware that it makes him look like an insecure tyrant.
==Manifestations==
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===In the comics===
Chris has been censoring events since [[Sonichu 0|''Sonichu'' #0]]. Before his encounters with the [[troll]]s the majority of censorship in the comic has been indirect, recreating heavily distorted versions of real events in an attempt to make him look more sympathetic and heroic. It's not until the trolls began to pester him that other forms of censorship begin to emerge and eventually take over the comic.
Chris has a consistent standard as to what he censors: swear words and what people tell him to censor. While early ''Sonichu'' comics have [[CWC-isms|extremely bizarre and strange minced oaths,]] more recent issues have added actual swearing, which has been clumsily censored out. This goes for anything from "fuck," which is understandable, to extremely mild almost-swears like
"[[DIRTY, CRAPPED BRIEFS|crap]]" which TV-Y7 shows can get away with anyway (indeed, censoring the word makes it look [[Wikipedia:cunt|far, far worse]]). Chris obviously has no problem with [[Chris Drops the N-Bomb|even the worst swearing,]] so we can assume he's doing it for the sake of the children reading the comic. Which is really strange, because he could just as easily have used harmless expletives like "Darn", and he has never voluntarily removed other objectionable content from his comic, such as:
* '''Graphic sex,''' removed only after extensive complaining from traumatized [[Trolls|fans]]. Note that graphic sex was preceded by an anatomy lesson which had uncensored swear words used to name sexual parts.
* '''Extremely revealing and embarrassing personal events''' via [[Sub-Episodes]], which ceased (but were not removed) only after [[Barb|his mother]] told him to stop.
* '''Thinly-veiled bids for sex from real-life [[gal pal]]s''' via [[Sailor Megtune|comic]] [[Queen of the Cherokian Clan|proxies]]. One [[Sonichu 5#Episode 13: "Smashed Hearts & Entrapment"|particularly creepy incident]] was edited only after [[Megan Schroeder|the lady in question]] demanded him to take them out. [[Chris and Remorse|He put the scene back in]] after he destroyed their friendship via [[SheCameForCWC.jpg]].
* '''Real people as unflattering characters''' all throughout the comic assembled in bewildering arrangement, including [[Private Villa of Corrupted Citizens|a monolithic anti-CWC conspiracy.]] Chris has only begrudgingly changed the names of real people at the insistence of a troll posing as [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] and as a form of half-assed pseudo-apology to [[Mary Lee Walsh]].
Presumably, if he were left to his own devices, Chris would have no problem exposing his hypothetical 7-year-old-and-up audience to "sexy" anatomy lessons.
Notably, the comic contains and has not yet censored:
* '''Extremely graphic mutilation and murder of real people,''' namely the [[Asperpedia]] staff. This has not been censored yet, even after the people he proxy-murdered complained.
* '''Profoundly racist and homophobic rants''', some of which are integral plot elements.
* '''PG-13-level sexual imagery and pseudo-innuendo,''' which remains even after the graphic sex was taken out.
* '''Unpleasantly frank discussions of sex in general,''' even if it now takes place off-screen.
You know, nothing that would be out of place on an episode of ''[[Power Rangers]]'' or ''[[Pokémon]]''.
When called on this, Chris blamed the [[Wikipedia:Federal Communications Commission|Federal Communications Commission]] for not stopping him from doing so. He is clearly unaware that in America, the things people put on the Internet are regulated by nothing but the user's own self-control. And we all know how little of that Chris has.
===On his website===
The censorship for Chris's [[CWCipedia|website]] is even more thorough and entrenched than in the comic. Like in the comic, he censors any swear word, regardless of how mild it is, while leaving every other horrible thought that comes out of his head unedited. The only thing Chris likes to edit are other people's words.
Perhaps the most disturbing censorship comes with the [[mailbag]]. It didn't take long for Chris to start gutting the mailbag, first simply depositing questions he didn't want to answer in the "rejected" mailbag, then planting rejected letters into the "to be answered later" mailbag when called out on rejecting letters, then straight-up erasing letters from the page in hopes nobody would figure out they existed. The most insidious edits (as far as Chris can achieve insidiousness) are his editing of questions and letters, in varying degrees of severity. Usually, this is to bring letters in line with his self-serving moral standards, to remove opinions he disagrees with, to turn criticism of his comic into fawning, to turn approval of ''[[Asperchu]]'' into approval of ''Sonichu'', or just to try and make his latest stupid point as hard as he can.
Interestingly, he is quite fond of striking out and replacing parts of letters with bold text, like a child scribbling over something he doesn't like. It's unknown whether he expects people to ignore the stricken parts of the letter, to agree with his [[Chris and ego|righteous fury,]] or if it's just for tantrum-like emphasis. He does the same thing when [[Chris chan (CWCipedia)|editing his ED page,]] so perhaps he just assumes we're all on his side.
Chris has an unpleasant tendency to refer to himself as the captain of the CWCipedia, and the trolls as assorted foes trying to bring him down. His actual level of control is of course negligible, so regardless of how disturbingly tyrannical his actions seem, he is so completely incompetent we should be glad he's not any smarter or in anything even vaguely resembling a position of power.
===''Flipnote Hatena''===
As of early [[June 2010]] Chris began playing with the DSi game ''Flipnote Studios'', and posted them on the website [[Flipnote Hatena]]. His works consisted primarily of the standard Chris-chan fare; unfunny attempts at [[random-access humor|humor]], ripping off of other peoples works, rambling comment posts, and of course the ubiquitous plastering of Sonichu's face wherever possible. One "work" of note that Chris posted on his account would cause him to run afoul of the Flipnote Hatena administrators. This was [[RomanticLabyrinth]]. Essentially a retelling of one of Chris's sex dreams, it violated some of the core rules of Flipnote Hatena in that it was ''sexual'' in nature. Chris, never being one to read or care about rules, was of course outraged when he discovered the animation had been removed by admins. He promptly reposted a hastily censored version of his work. When this too was removed, Chris again posted the censored version, only this time with a ranting call for admins to leave his work be and instead divert their attention to the trolls that were supposedly harassing him on his comment page. This third upload was soon banned. He would go on to upload this Flipnote three more times, the fourth time leading to his first ban.
==Self-censorship==
When it comes to Chris censoring ''himself'', it's a difficult thing to actually pin down. It ''can'' be said that Chris has learned to put a filter on himself. This is often seen on his website, where he types any swear words he wants to use as the first letter of the word and a series of asterisks (example: f***, a**, etc.). He knows he has to stay "Family Friendly", but he's too angry to go with inoffensive cusses like "Oh, nuts", so he uses implied swearing as a sort of [[naive|extremely stupid]] middle ground. This has resulted in some very unusual quotes, such as...
{{Quote|but NOOOOO, the Trolls HAD to stick their n***** noses into my affair.|Chris, [[Damien Antaria (CWCipedia page)|self-censoring a ''racial slur'']].}}
During Chris's early net days, nothing was too candid for Chris to mention: his [[attraction sign]]s, telling people that he was a [[virgin with rage]] and he was searching for a [[boyfriend-free girl]] to build into a sweetheart. All of it was fair game. However, the trolling attacks on him have started to teach him that not everything can and should be said.
Of course, with Chris, trying to get him to stop mentioning things is akin to smacking a dog with a newspaper when it does something bad - you have to keep doing it ''over and over'' just to get him to learn. Case in point: [[The Wallflower]]. When the [[CWCki]] exposed The Wallflower to the world, she approached the site to get the page removed after learning what it contained. However, Chris not only took it as a victory for himself, he would ''still'' drop ''both'' of her names even a month afterward. Even worse, when Chris snatched the article for the Wallflower from the CWCki and placed it on the [[CWCipedia]], Chris removed the part that described how the CWCki was respectful to the Wallflower's privacy.
==Chris's views on censorship==
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Chris's views on censorship are skewed at best and hypocritical at worst. His comic is easily the best example of Chris's odd views. Panty-shots, [[Sonichu 8|sex]] [[Giant Penis Comic|scenes]], "stripping for [[Women's Rights]]" - all of this stands in sharp contrast to Chris's unwillingness to push the extra mile on violence (especially when it comes to [[Simonla|killing characters]]) and the rampant "bleeping" of swear words. In fact, Chris's hypocritical actions mimic that of another famed troll-target, David Gonterman, whose misogynistic, homophobic and racist comments and actions clashed with his attempts to paint a family friendly world. For someone who wants to have his comics published across the world, he's doing a poor job convincing people that he has material that's publishable - [[Chris and art|on top of]] [[Copyright|the rest of the evidence against him]].
The evidence suggests that Chris only censors what he doesn't like. He doesn't like character death or explicit violence, unless it's directed at the trolls who've angered him the most, or if he's being "True and Honest" about some past pretend-girlfriend suddenly "dying." He doesn't like swearing, unless he's dropping F- and N-bombs on his enemies. He really likes female nudity and can't stand (for one reason or the other) male nudity that isn't his perfect and immaculate body on display—and so on.
In Chris's eyes, he thinks this is being "True and Honest," just like everything else. However, because of his [[autism]], he just has no filter for these sort of thing, and because he's such an unmotivated slug, he's never bothered to learn what's appropriate and what isn't. Thus, he sees no problem uploading videos in which [[CWCFlyingElephants|he's run around naked]], [[Death threats|threatened violence towards others]], or [[Chris Drops the N-Bomb|generally behaved like an ignorant jackass]]. Likewise, he only edited out the sex and nudity of Sonichu when Pretend Miyamoto made him, and continues to upload his Flipnotes in blatant defiance of the mods.
Chris himself hasn't spoken out much on censorship beyond a disdain for the censorship of female nudity and complaints about the violence and swearing in Asperchu. If he ever did release his thoughts on the issue of censorship, one might reasonably assume he'd reiterate annoyance at "those dumb laws" while demanding men wear bras, homos kindly die, and that more violent games include "no blood or gore" options a la Brutal Legend. The reasoning behind this should be obvious—because that's what ''he'' wants.
== See also ==
*[[Chris in the media]]
*[[Chris and the law]]
*[[Retroactive continuity in Sonichu|Retroactive continuity in ''Sonichu'']]
*[[Honest Content]]
{{Chris and}}

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