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Dear Comedy Central:

Those who are easily offended should know after NINE YEARS that they shouldn’t be watching South Park. Now that you have caved on one particularly nasty episode, how many other South Park episodes will be judged too objectional to be permitted? How much of your intellectual property will be left when you let others tell you what is sufficiently decent for you to create and share with your viewers?

I have two kids, four and seven. Neither has seen one single frame of South Park, because they’re not old enough. Keep warning your viewers that some of your content is not for kids or Christians; this is good. But by letting extremists control your output, you are placing your whole business at risk by alienating both your viewers and your artists.

As for me and anyone else interested in this particular episode, we get to see it regardless–commercial free, over the Internet. Better luck next time.