South Park crossed the line?

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Well just as I do every wednesday, I went to southparkstudios.com to watch the newest episode of South Park. I was all excited for the new episode and when I go to the site I see this:

Spoiler

South Park Creators issued a statement:

In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it.

Guess they really crossed the line this time. I think its because they showed an image of the Islamic profit Muhammad. What do you think of this? Did they cross the line or not?

 

[Payton]

South Park did nothing wrong, they were just exercising their freedom of speech. Remember the writer that was killed a while back for his book The Satanic Verses? What about those cartoonists?

 

[Evil Eye]

freedom of speech.

It just doesn't appear to exist

*just saw the latest SP.*

Lots of censoring there...

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

South Park Creators issued a statement (added to the 1st post):

In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it.

Seems like they really got on Comedy Central's bad side with this episode. It seems funny to me that its ok to make fun of all other religions and what not but this crosses the line? South Park makes fun of anything and everything, why get all riled up all of the sudden?

 

[Evil Eye]

Dammit, so there was a speech!

why get all riled up all of the sudden?

Fear.

It's basically all powerful.

 

[McConnaughay]

I honestly feel like the bleeps arguably made the episode even funnier, but really, they did absolutely nothing that should be censored.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I wish I could see it.

 

[Evil Eye]

I wish I could see it.

http://www.xepisodes.com/southpark/episodes/1406/201.html

 

[Jazzy]

'South Park' producers say network cut fear speech http://www.aolnews.com/story/south-park-producers-say-network-cut/995451

 

[Evil Eye]

Yeah, I really want to know what was said now

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Ok I seen the episode now (thanks GardsJr). Ive never heard such long beeps in my life/

 

[Evil Eye]

Ive never heard such long beeps in my life/

Terrible isn't it

 

[Crusader]

Ok I seen the episode now (thanks GardsJr). Ive never heard such long beeps in my life/

It hurt my ears

 

[ThaBawse]

God this is retarded. It's not like its the first time they've poked fun of a religious group...

 

[Red Herring]

It's stupid. So much for freedom of speech these days.



As said, it was completely out of fear.

 

[Novax]

I really want to watch this episode, I do not take offense to most things, so this probably would not bother me

 

[Flurry]

I heard something about how they were threatened by Muslims or whatever.

 

[sbfc]

I wouldn't be offended myself and I don't really think they've crossed the line myself but can see why others think they have.



I don't watch South Park anyway.

 

[Phazite]

Since I didn't see this mentioned in this thread, I'll briefly explain.



It was a Islamic extremist website that warned the South Park creators that harm or death would probably come to them, plus something like the public posting of their addresses. [1] Some of their websites were hacked (by anonymous?) soon afterwards. [2]

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

They didn't cross the lines, people just need to enjoy it or don't watch it at all and don't care...

Thats not the issue. The issue is violent extremists sending out death threats.

None of their other episodes ever produced death threats.