{"id":31318,"date":"2011-12-20T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31318"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:11:58","slug":"uk-virgin-media-programme-guide-censors-hitchck-and-dens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31318","title":{"rendered":"UK: Virgin Media programme guide censors Hitchc**k and D***ens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Media&#8217;s electronic programme guide <a title=\"Guardian : WTF? EPG takes offence to Alfred Hitchc**k and Charles D***ens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/mediamonkeyblog\/2011\/dec\/19\/epg-alfred-hitchcock-charles-dickens\" target=\"_blank\">took offence<\/a> at a range of inoffensive words at the weekend. Alfred Hitchcock became\u00a0Alfred Hitchc**k, as Jarvis C**ker was subject to the same treatment. A**enal and Charles D**kens were also deemed too offensive for viewers.\u00a0A Virgin Media spokesperson told the Guardian: &#8220;Over the weekend a temporarily over-zealous profanity checker took offence at certain programme titles. The altered titles have been swiftly an*lysed and we&#8217;re fixing any remaining glitches.&#8221; Viewers were quick to notice, <a title=\"Media Blog : Virgin Media's 'censorship gone mad'\" href=\"http:\/\/themediablog.typepad.com\/the-media-blog\/2011\/12\/virgin-media-censorship-gone-mad.html\" target=\"_blank\">posting pictures<\/a> of the c**k up online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Media&#8217;s electronic programme guide took offence at a range of inoffensive words at the weekend. Alfred Hitchcock became\u00a0Alfred Hitchc**k, as Jarvis C**ker was subject to the same treatment. A**enal and Charles D**kens were also deemed too offensive for viewers.\u00a0A Virgin Media spokesperson told the Guardian: &#8220;Over the weekend a temporarily over-zealous profanity checker took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[103,4112,4111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31338,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31318\/revisions\/31338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}