From about 1965 to just a couple years ago, the Great Moments with Mr Lincoln Show ran dozens of time every day at the end of Disneyalnd's Main Street, USA. The Lincoln robot's speech is an inspiring little pastiche of several of his addresses, and it about as fiery as anything you'll hear at Disneyland.
Dan Howland, of the Journal of Ride Theory, created a character in the online game version of Disneyland, The Virtual Magic Kingdom, which is a graphic chat environment. The chat app censors words it thinks might be naughty, to "protect" the kids who use it.
Howland's character stood in the middle of the virtual town square, next to the virtual flagpole, and attempted to have his character utter Mr Lincoln's famous, familiar words.
The censor cut them to ribbons. Words in red are words that were blocked:
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts. These are not our reliance against tyranny. Our reliance is in the love of liberty that God has planted in our bosums. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
(Thanks, Danny!)
