The Count Censored (ORIGINAL)

mrmagoo312 · 6.2M views · 2007 · 2:08

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Satire & parodyStand-up & sketch comedycomedy

Why Hacker News recommends it

Brought up in censorship threads as a joke and as a canonical example of censorship that changes the meaning of the original.

What it is

A mashup of a Sesame Street Count clip with a Lemon Demon song, where the swear words are censored in absurd ways. It is a short comedy piece about censorship.

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What Hacker News said

Critical professorplumb · 2023-02 · on “Google will blur explicit image results for all users, requires login to disable”

I've always considered this video the canonical example of intentionally misleading censorship: [this video]