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By Tricia Gilbride2014-11-10 22:07:58 UTC

Amy Schumer: comedian, writer, actress, activist.

Schumer revealed her successful fight for the right to say the word "pussy" without being censored on her Comedy Central show during an Inside Amy Schumer Paley Center panel on Saturday as part of the New York Comedy Festival, Vulture reports.

Schumer and the show's executive producers Jessi Klein and Dan Powell explained that Comedy Central's previous standards smacked of gender inequality. "Pussy" was not allowed, but "dick" was, as long as as the context wasn't sexual a fact that did not go unnoticed by a show that frequently satirizes gender politics.

Powell wrote an impassioned letter to network executives making the case for using "pussy" on the air after they began working on Season 2 of the show.

"That was Dan's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," Schumer joked, referring to the 1939 James Stewart film where he plays a nave senator proposing his first bill.

The crusade paid off, and the word "pussy" appeared for the first time on Comedy Central uncensored on April 29, in a in a sketch called "Acting Off-Camera." In the sketch, Schumer records a voiceover for an animated meerkat with a visible vagina named Dumpy who fights crime with "hot" meerkats voiced by Jessica Alba and Megan Fox.

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Jeremy Paxman has diversified his journalism and presenting since quitting as Newsnights long-serving anchor earlier this year. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

Though famously derisive of the internet and many of the people who use it, Jeremy Paxman has broadened his post-Newsnight portfolio by writing for digital media darling Vice. The online-only article is about the first world war poet Wilfred Owens work being banned from the Guantnamo Bay prison library.

Paxmans piece along with articles from Melvyn Bragg, Irvine Welsh, John Pilger, John Le Carr and Frederick Forsyth, also on literature banned at the notorious US military detention camp form part of Vice Medias new Guantnamo Bay editorial project, the flagship of the companys website redesign.

Paxman, 64, who earlier this year presented a BBC docudrama on the war poet, writes in his Vice piece: I find it fascinating that Wilfred Owen is banned in Guantanamo. He is, famously, the great anti-war poet.

Yet by no stretch of the imagination can he be considered either malevolent or unpatriotic Funnily enough, many soldiers like his poetry very much.

Paxmans book The English has been passed as suitable in the detention camp, and former British Guantnamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg once showed him the rubber stamp inside the cover of his copy.

The Guantnamo Bay project, Behind the Bars, will feature 30 pieces of original content and provide a rare insight into the lives of the people inhabiting one of the worlds most infamous, yet secretive, jails.

It will be led by long-form essays, drawings and satire. Shaker Aamar, the last British resident to be held in US super-max prison, on the island of Cuba, pens a satirical take on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as a fable about Colonel John Bogden.

Vice was able to gain access to the articles from detainees by working with the lawyers at Reprieve, a global non-for-profit organisation which represents many of the inmates.

Since leaving Newsnight, which he presented for 25 years, Paxman has joined the Financial Times as a contributing editor for the weekend issue, making his debut this weekend, writing an account of the mysterious death of Lord Kitchener, the war hero and British military commander in the first world war. Paxman will also anchor Channel 4s general election coverage next year.

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Unnecessary Censorship: Doc McStuffins bleeps out word
Trying to figure out why they bleeped an episode of Disney #39;s Doc McStuffins.

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On the Red Carpet | National Coalition Against Censorship
http://www.kidlit.tv Rocco Staino from the School Library Journal and Huffington Post is "On the Red Carpet" at the 2014 National Coalition Against Censorship #39;s 40t...

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asdfmovie | Unnecessary Censorship | Censored Parody Video
So I #39;m a big fan of TomSka, and since I make unnecessary censorship videos pretty often, I decided to censor the asdfmovie series. I hope you guys enjoy! To Tom: If you #39;re reading this, just...

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Lets Censor HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Part 1 | Unnecessary Censorship | Jennifer Lawrence Bleeps
With Mockingjay on its way, and in 2 parts, Brooks Show presents Part 1 of Lets Censor Catching Fire. Part 2 will come when we get 200 likes! Want a movie censored? Comment below ----------...

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By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai2014-11-07 17:00:05 UTC

As Facebook expands, countries are increasingly interested in making content on the social network disappear.

Censorship on Facebook increased 19% between the first six months of 2014 and the last six months of 2013, the company revealed on Tuesday. But censorship isn't distributed evenly; some countries are more trigger-happy than others when asking Facebook to remove content.

Facebook only removed some content in 15 of the 83 counties listed on the network's third transparency report. India leads the list of content removal; Facebook restricted 4,960 "pieces of content" from the country between January and June 2014. Turkey and Pakistan follow closely with 1,893 and 1,773 "pieces of content" removed, respectively.

After India, Turkey and Pakistan, there is a big gap. Facebook only removed 34 pieces of content from the No. 4 country on the list, Germany.

A Facebook spokesperson said the company restricts access to content only when it is "illegal under local law." Facebook doesn't release many details on the content it restricts or what laws the restrictions are based on but does explain the reasons for removals in each country, in broad strokes.

Facebook said that the requests came "primarily" from law enforcement officials and the India Computer Emergency Response Team.

These requests, according to Facebook, were based on "local laws prohibiting criticism of a religion or the state" language that suggests some were to suppress political speech.

The situation is similar in Turkey, where content was primarily restricted "under local laws prohibiting defamation or criticism of Ataturk or the Turkish state." For Zeynep Tufecki, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, this indicates some censorship, and Facebook should clarify what it restricts and why.

"I'd like to see breakdown of the censored content," Tufecki told Mashable, referring also to requests for user data. "I don't think anyone is going to object if they are sharing information with police in cases of probable cause in child abuse, for example. But we don't know."

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Unnecessary Censorship - Assassin #39;s Creed 3 (Censored Parody)
Unnecessary Censorship - Assassin #39;s Creed 3 (Censored Parody) Assassin #39;s Creed is owned and made by Ubisoft. Like what you see? Buy the game here: http://sto...

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Muslim Facebook Censorship.
Give me liberty,or Give me death.

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Unnecessary Censorship in League of Legends Part 5
Bonus Vid in the end!** New Champs, new potty mouths. Also I included some fan suggested lines Discuss on Reddit: http://tinyurl.com/md2zgns Check me out on Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/deadlyw...

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