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So, just yesterday we wrote about Pakistan's decision to block all of Facebook, because some users had set up a page for "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" (in response to the threats made to Comedy Central concerning an episode of South Park).

Update: A comment from someone at Viacom says that The Hollywood Reporter got this story wrong. He correctly noted that we accidentally called their PR guy a lawyer (fixed), but now says that the quote is not about suing, even though that certainly seems to be the implication from the quote.

Perhaps I'm missing something. However, Viacom now says:

We have always tried to be as permissive as possible when looking at what might be fair use, and we haven't changed our approach at all.

Frankly, fair use works for us.

America’s most trusted satire newspaper and website, The Onion, has been steadily moving into online video in the past few years (with many hilarious pokes at