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Bleep! Censoring Hollywood, a news special focused on companies that offer "sanitized" versions of Hollywood films to the red-state crowd, has Hollywood players doomsaying about the technology's sinister downside. From the LAT:

Producer Marshall Herskovitz ("The Last Samurai") takes the debate up a notch when he says: "It's easy to see a time when you could go into a store and say, 'Well, I'd like to have movies with no Jews in them. Let's take movies with no black people. Movies with no abortion. Movies with no smoking. Movies with no sex. Movies with no violence' — there's a whole range of things you could take out of movies based on your personal preference."

These industry folks, always with the gloom and doom. Technology like this is always a double-edged sword. Couldn't the equipment be subverted and used to insert more Jews/gays/sex/blacks/abortions/beheadings/boobies/wieners into movies? Think Closer where Natalie Portman isn't so shy, or Spongebob finally getting to indulge in some on-screen sodomy. And if we take the "personal preference" angle a little further, couldn't we theoretically de-Ratnerize a movie, seamlessly removing every other needless, whiplash-inducing quick-cut, thus reducing brain cell burn rate and virtually eliminating the unpleasant grand mal seizures viewers of his oeuvre suffer? We may be entering a brave, new world, but it's just a couple of button-presses away from being a brave, new, awesome world.

[Don't worry, this sunny optimism usually dissipates once the coffee kicks in.]