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January 18, 2012

Gallery: Web Censorship Protest Pages.

January 18th, 2012

Numbers of sites joined the protest against Web Censorship and the proposed bills namely SOPA and PIPA.

WordPress (wordpress.com):

Google (google.com):

WikiPedia (en.wikipedia.org):

Zachary Johnson | zachstronaut (stop-sopa template):

Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org):

Boing Boing (boingboing.net):

Metal Archives (metal-archives.net):

Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

CyanogenMod (cyanogenmod.com):

Mozilla (mozilla.com):

Mojang, maker of Minecraft (mojang.com):

Free Software Foundation (fsf.org):

Modernmethod | Destructoid (modernmethod.com | destructoid.com):

Imgur (imgur.com):

Cheezburger (cheezburger.com):

craigslist (craigslist.org):

reddit (reddit.com):

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) (blumenauer.house.gov):

The Daily WTF (http://thedailywtf.com/):

Wired (wired.com):

4chan (4chan.org):

MacInTouch (macintouch.com):

April 28, 2011August 3, 2020

South Park: The Complete Fourteenth Season, the controversy continues.

For those who are expecting an uncensored version of South Park: The Complete Fourteenth Season might be disappointed.

First, you would instantly noticed that the packaging did not say “Uncensored” anywhere on the packaging. South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season was the first to be released uncensored. Both Twelfth and Thirteenth Season DVD and Blu-Ray were also uncensored. So, what about the Fourteenth Season?

Second, there’s a sticker that said “Includes All Episodes!” on the Complete Fourteenth Season packaging. Fans are concerned that both episode “200” and “201” would not be included in the set. As a matter of fact both episode “200” and “201” are still not available on iTunes Store and Amazon Instant Download. Well, “All Episodes” are included but Episode “201” is heavily censored just like the broadcast version. Adding insult to the injury, the commentary by Trey Parker and Matt Stone is also censored with long beeps. According to PArker and Stone, Comedy Central is the one behind the censorship and might not release the Complete Season if Episode “201” was uncensored.

Comedy Central Pulled South Park Episode “201” Off The Air Amidst Controversy.

UPDATE:
It is also possible that Comedy Central wouldn’t be airing both “200 and “201” anymore. In addition to that both episodes might never be allowed to stream at South Park Studios. Episode “200” is now unavailable on iTunes Store.

Comedy Central has pulled South Park Episode “201” off the air, they will be showing “You Have 0 Friends” instead. At this point I cannot confirmed if Comedy Central aired “201” on Thursday night at 10:00 PM, the usual Thursday slot for new Episodes of South Park following the Wednesday Premiere and Midnight Encore. Usually South Park Studios provides stream tho the broadcast version of new episodes shortly after it premiers on Comedy Central. Within a day the uncensored versions are made available for streaming. Unfortunately Comedy Central has decided not to allow South Park Studios to stream Episode “201” in its broadcast and in its original (uncensored) version.

South Park fans also unable to watch the Episode “201” at South Park Studios site due to Comedy Central’s disapproval. Instead, fans of the show are downloading “201” from numbers of sites that provide the Episode recorded from its original broadcast on Wednesday April 21st, 2010.

Comedy Central is certainly choosing the safest path to walk on, even though it proves to be unpopular among South Park fans. Comedy Central has yet to release any official statement regarding its decision to censor the episode. In the end Comedy Central must have believed that censoring and pulling off the Episode off the air are the right thing to do.

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If you feel compelled to say something to Comedy Central, please do so in a civilized manner. Remember that The United States of America values the Freedom of Speech. Comedy Central has the right to censor any South Park Episodes, and you have the right to tell them how you feel about it.