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This has essentially happened already. Comedy central censors South Park in a direct response to threats made against them regarding depictions of Mohammed.

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This South Park speech sums up the current situation pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka3nKBR2mIU

Very funny and true... and it looks like fear (of getting emails hacked) has executives in Hollywood panicking now.

"Steve Carell’s North Korea Movie ‘Pyongyang’ Canceled in Wake of Sony Hack" http://www.thewrap.com/steve-carells-north-korea-movie-pyong...

The South Park episode you speak of still aired. But the depiction of Mohammed was "censored."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_%28South_Park%29

Incidentally this episode aired nine years earlier with no controversy over showing Mohammed. Though after 201 aired they did take down Super Best Friends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends

You think that's bad? India took Comedy central off the air because of that!

Seth Rogen is a bit of a coward. He picked an easy target in Kim given that North Korea is isolated and has no ability to do any real harm to him. Easy to mock somebody who can't get back at you.

Would he have dared to make a comedy mocking Mohammed the warlord turned prophet and 72 virgins in heaven? I guess he was smart enough to figure out that life under police protection would have cramped his partying.

Oh, and Seth is a total prima-donna, witness his recent tirade against Cathay Pacific because they wouldn't allow his wife's dog onto the plane due to the breed being more susceptible to death during flight.

I think there might be a difference between mocking an actual dictator causing real harm to real people and an ancient religious figure.

That "ancient religious figure" is arguably causing real harm to real people right now, too. If anything, the difference should be that mocking "ancient religious figure" should be risk-free, while mocking psychos with nuclear weapons is rather risky. How it became exactly the opposite is beyond me.

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