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South Park censored by Comedy Central. Bastards.May. 8, 2006

This is a couple of weeks old now, but I thought I’d put it up anyway. The South Park guys have done a brilliant double episode regarding the whole Mohammad cartoon debacle. In the second episode, they were going to show a cartoon image of Mohammad handing a helmet to Peter from the Family Guy. Comedy Central refused to show the image, and it was edited and replaced with this:

 

Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of Mohammad on their network.

 

As I said in an earlier post: “Give those rioting fucking lunatics a pat on the head and a dog biscuit.” Their disgraceful antics have had the desired effect. I thought we weren’t supposed to give in to terrorism?

 

They then expose an absurd double standard by broadcasting, as the terrorist’s retaliation, cartoon images of Jesus crapping on the President. You can’t show a completely innocuous image of Mohammad, but you can show Jesus crapping on someone? Ridiculous.

 

Here is a short video from the episode where Kyle argues for free speech. He sums it up nicely:


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South Park, SBS and censorshipMay. 10, 2006
Yeah definite double standards.

Mind you, SBS can only protect their core audience by exercising that particular double standard in this instance.

And with the audience share they have, to do otherwise - given Cabinet's current antipathy towards state broadcasters - would be folly.

I don't envy SBS management.
Posted by dikkii

Untitled CommentMay. 10, 2006
Yeah Dikkii,

It will be very interesting to see what happens when this episode is broadcast in Australia. I imagine we will see the same edited version. I wonder if there will be any outcry about the Jesus thing though?
Posted by Adam

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