This Week in Unnecessary Censorship: VIDEO

Jimmy Kimmel's weekly tribute to the FCC, AFTER THE JUMP...

This Week in Unnecessary Censorship: VIDEO

For the first time this week, Mitt Romney and President Obama _____ed each other on stage, and Arnold Schwarzenegger has converted his bedroom into a shrine for men with freakishly large ______.

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Law Banning 'Gay Propaganda' Advances in Ukraine

Ukrainian lawmakers have advanced a law that would ban "gay propaganda" similar to the one passed earlier this year in St. Petersburg, Russia, RIA Novosti reports:

The draft law, approved by 289 out of 350 lawmakers at a parliament session on Tuesday, envisions amendments to several existing laws which would impose prison terms of up to five years and hefty fines for spreading the “propaganda of homosexuality.”

The bill's authors claim "gay propaganda" could lead to a worsening of Ukraine's HIV/AIDS epidemic and destroy the traditional family institution, causing a demographic crisis in the country.

“By promoting the extreme forms of sexual frivolity, the Ukrainian media is creating the conditions for the spread of the AIDS epidemic in Ukraine,” an explanatory note accompanying the bill says.

“In order to prevent this dangerous process, it is necessary to introduce legislation banning the propaganda of homosexuality by the Ukrainian media,” the note says.

A second vote is expected on October 16, after which it could become law.

Image: a Ukrainian gay rights activist is beaten as the media looks on, in May 2012.

This Week in Unnecessary Censorship: VIDEO

Jimmy Kimmel bleeps and blurs things whether they need it or not.

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This Week in Unnecessary Censorship: VIDEO

One of Jimmy Kimmel's consistently good segments strikes again with clips featuring Novak Djokovic and Sean Connery, Mitt Romney, Justin Bieber, Obama, and that big pizza shop owner who bear-hugged him.

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This Week in Unnecessary Censorship: VIDEO

From last night's Jimmy Kimmel - contains a great Bill Clinton moment...

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Incidentally, Kimmel was interviewed for TV Guide this week, and since I posted a clip earlier this week of a skit he chose to run which mocked gays, I thought I should mention something he said in the interview that presents a flipside to that criticism:

"I try to leave my political opinions out of the show because I don't feel like I know enough to speak as an authority on those subjects and it just upsets people. There are certain issues that I think are important enough to pick a side, like same-sex marriage for instance. I think it's ridiculous that people aren't legally allowed to get married and I don't think it has anything to do with religion."

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