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Posted Wednesday 5/11/22 at 1:16PM EDT
ABC censors were unable to stop Joy Behar's S-word on The View this morning
Behar was commenting on Elon Musk saying he'll lift Donald Trump's Twitter ban when she got an S-word past ABC...
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Posted Wednesday 4/27/22 at 1:28PM EDT
Twitter admits it banned tweets promoting HBO docuseries Q: Into the Storm
Director Cullen Hoback learned that Twitter was censoring his 2021 QAnon docuseries when he tried to pay to boost his...
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Posted Tuesday 4/26/22 at 6:36PM EDT
Britain's ITV edits out a homophobic joke from the 2002 film Spider-Man
Early in the movie, Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker says to his opponent at a wrestling match, “That’s a cute outfit.
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Posted Tuesday 3/29/22 at 3:52AM EDT
ABC tried to censor the Will Smith-Chris Rock Slap, but the uncensored version was all over Twitter within minutes
It took less than five minutes for David Mack, a Buzzfeed News reporter based in Sydney, Australia, to tweet an...
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Posted Monday 2/14/22 at 9:37AM EST
Backlash follows Friends' return to China's streaming service with LGBTQ storylines edited out
The hashtag #FriendsCensored quickly attracted millions of views on the Weibo social media platform after the removal of sexually suggestive...
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Posted Monday 11/01/21 at 3:52PM EDT
Netflix pulls two episodes of Australian spy series Pine Gap in Philippines over its South China Sea Map
The Philippines’ department of foreign affairs accused Netflix of “violating Philippine sovereignty" with its use of the "nine-dash line" that...
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Posted Saturday 5/29/21 at 2:40AM EDT
Friends: The Reunion's Chinese-censored version has to compete in China with uncensored pirated versions
China’s leading video streamers iQiyi, Tencent and Alibaba’s Youku all premiered a version of the HBO Max reunion on Thursday...
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Posted Thursday 5/27/21 at 8:30PM EDT
China's government censors six minutes from Friends: The Reunion
All three of the country's major streaming platforms showing the HBO Max reunion edited out footage of BTS, Lady Gaga,...
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Posted Wednesday 5/06/20 at 3:50AM EDT
Turkish-American Designated Survivor actor is "disappointed" Netflix pulled his episode in Turkey
Troy Caylak, who played the villainous fictional Turkish President Faith Fatih Turan in a 2018 ABC episode of Designated Survivor,...
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Netflix pulls a Designated Survivor episode in Turkey in response to the government's demand
The streaming service said it complied with Turkey's censor board demand that a Season 2 episode of Designated Survivor be...
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Posted Wednesday 4/15/20 at 1:26PM EDT
ESPN will show two versions of Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance: One that's family friendly and one with profanity
The uncensored version of the 10-part documentary will air on ESPN, while the censored version with bleeps and dropped audio...
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Posted Friday 2/07/20 at 1:31PM EST
Netflix reveals the shows and movies it pulled in response to the demands of foreign governments
The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj made headlines last year when Netflix complied with a Saudi Arabian government request to...
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Posted Thursday 2/06/20 at 10:36PM EST
CBS censors Trump's "bullsh*t" line on The Late Show after airing it uncensored on live TV
Stephen Colbert played the "It was all bullsh*t" line on Thursday's Late Show that the president uttered during his post-impeachment...
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Posted Thursday 2/06/20 at 3:36PM EST
President Trump uses profanity in post-impeachment TV address, calling investigations "all bullsh*t"
"It was all bullsh*t," the president said in a sprawling and teleprompter-free address carried on live TV, referring specifically to...
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Posted Thursday 1/09/20 at 5:44PM EST
Pamela Adlon doesn't know if her upcoming Better Things C-word scene will make it past FX censors
In a Season 4 scene, Adlon's character and her daughters have a fight where they call each other the C-word.