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JK Rowling Criticizes BBC Decision to Remove Mitchell and Webb Comedy Sketches

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J.K. Rowling criticized the BBC for removing 11 sketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look on iPlayer, arguing against treating adults like children and allowing despotic figures to censor content. The post highlights free-speech debates around the BBC's editing of older comedy involving blackface satire and a Savile joke.

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Stop treating the adult population like children and stop allowing adults who behave like despotic toddlers to decree what the rest of us are allowed to watch. (Quote of BBC News on removing comedy sketches.)

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