If you're going to censor things, at least be creative and interesting.

A problem when censorship is imposed on a story is often that it's applied badly. 4kids' handling of Yu-Gi-Oh and One Piece are big immediate examples. They went completely overboard in censoring anything related to blood, guns, death, sex, alcohol. and (bizarrely) Japanese culture, often to the detriment of the quality of the work, because the censorship was often the complete removal of the "problematic elements" or photoshopping imagery over it to the point things look worse or that what's happening in the scene doesn't make sense or have nearly the intended impact. And while that did lead to some things that were unintentionally funny, like people apparently being able to get drunk off of hot sauce in the Yu-Gi-Oh world, there's a reason 4kids itself is seen as such a joke these days.

Censorship like many things is just another tool and like all tools it needs to be used for the right jobs. I've really enjoyed listening to Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged commentaries and their discussions about which jokes involving swears would be funnier censored or not. Even they no longer had to censor themselves because of any Youtube policies, they still chose to censor themselves sometimes because they felt it'd make a joke and its delivery land better, and they'd leave other jokes uncensored for the same reason. They didn't just go slapping censorship on any little thing that could have it but they also didn't go completely balls-outs just because they could. They put thought into it.

My Hero Academia has a great example of clever censorship. In Re-Destro's fight with Shigaraki, Shigaraki's Decay affects his legs and Re-Destro has to cut them off in order to save the rest of his body. The anime did not want to show Re-Destro's bloody stumps like that manga did, so what did it do instead? It hid Re-Destro's legs behind the piece of metal he used to cut them off, and as Shigaraki is commenting on what he did we get the wind lightly blowing Re-Destro's empty pants legs out from behind the metal..

THAT is censorship I'm actually okay with because it's both creative and still has impact. We don't need to directly see Re-Destro's legs in order to know that he cut them off because it's told to use in a visually interesting way.

It reminds me of when Batman the Animated Series showed Dick Grayson's origin. The mob tried to extort the circus The Flying Graysons worked at for protection money, and when the circus owner refused they had Dick's parent's killed by sabotaging the trapeze ropes.

We see the swing getting more and more damaged throughout the Graysons' performance, until finally we see Dick's parents swing off...and then see the broken rope swing back, accompanied by the horrified gasps and screams of the audience.

We never directly see their deaths. We never even see their dead bodies. But we know full well what just happen, and we don't feel cheated because the information was conveyed to us in a very theatrical way that slowly built the tension and paid it off well. They couldn't show a gruesome death on a Saturday morning kids cartoon, not even one about Batman, but they got creative and worked within that censorship and those restrictions in order to still make a good scene that, honestly, I think is better than if they had just directly shown the Graysons' deaths.