TechCrunch grew into a blog juggernaut thanks to its no-holds-barred coverage of the staid tech start-up community. But yesterday it scrubbed a post about a Googler's sexual assault accusation. Does this have to do with their relationship to the accused?

It's admirable that Google is so reluctant to censor content on YouTube. But now that the company has yanked videos from an extreme American-born Muslim cleric currently in hiding, it's worth asking why the company finally caved to critics.

The artwork for rapper Kanye West's new album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, has been banned! That is, according to Kanye, who Tweeted the cover earlier this evening. Want to see it? There are boobs!

The Washington Post pulled the October 3rd Non Sequitur cartoon from its paper. Because it referenced Muhammad. And the Washington Post's job is to censor its content in accordance with the demands of a small band of violent religious lunatics.

Libya is not pleased with Violet Blue's bare arms. The North African autocracy shut down the American writer's website partly because it featured an "offensive" picture of her drinking beer in a sleeveless shirt.

When searching for something online, are you disturbed by some of the trash that Google dredges up from the depths of the internet? Rest easy, because there are religious search engines to keep your mind pure. Let's take a look!

Steve Jobs released rules, apparently in his own words, outlining creative correctness in Apple's App Store. The Apple CEO's "guidelines" are arbitrary, prudish and almost comically despotic. But at least now they're written down and exposed to public scrutiny.

Craigslist has shut down its famed 'Adult Services' section, after Attorneys General in 17 states demanded it do so. Now, there's just a big black-and-white CENSORED bar where once was the gateway to 'deep tissue' massages and colorful sex practices.

Apple is notoriously squeamish about gay-themed iPhone apps. This ambivalence seems to have made the jump to Ping, The music social network Apple announced today. In a promo screenshot, they censored Lady Gaga's tweets celebrating the demise of Prop 8.

Facebook abruptly removed ads for pot legalization group Just Say Now, saying the ads' marijuana leaves might encourage Facebook members to try toking. A social network founded on college campuses can't really think its users are strangers to pot.

Today, Jimmy Fallon's first Emmys promo spot—a Mad Men spoof—was online. Now, it's gone, reportedly due to non-AMC networks' displeasure with NBC "plugging" a candidate during the voting period. You can still watch it inside this post, though!

Steve Jobs has championed "freedom from porn," because, he suggests, pornography harms kids. But a technology broadcaster said he spent a porny weekend with Jobs—and Jobs' young family.

In your head-scratching Tuesday media column: African-Americans simply can't appreciate Bill O'Reilly, more evidence of Tribune Co. hopelessness, GQ censors itself in China, and WSJ. magazine names a new editor.

Facebook appears to have solved the bug that led to the word 'Palestinian' being banned from page titles. But that's not their only problem: Now people with the surname "Arab" are being prevented from opening accounts.

The Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet tried to create a Facebook page for itself this weekend. Only, it wasn't able to do so—because Facebook won't let users create pages with the word "Palestinian" in the title.

Perhaps you've heard that smut peddler Teri Gross' filthy interview show, Fresh Air has been pulled from Mississippi Public Broadcasting's lineup. What offended a listener's southern sensibility Comedian Louis CK explaining why he always has sex with his shirt on.

Mississippi has modernized itself quite a bit lately. No longer are African-Americans required by law to wear chains, nor are women required to remain indoors. But Terry Gross's NPR show? Smut like that is still not allowed.

Apple was busted today for deleting multiple customer forum posts about a negative Consumer Reports review of its new iPhone. Maybe an Apple.com moderator simply went rogue, but now the company will have to deal with the PR fallout.

Dmitry Medvedev, the "elected" president of Russia, is touring Silicon Valley companies this week. At Apple tomorrow, say Russian reports, the Mac enthusiast will get a pre-release iPhone 4 as a personal gift from CEO Steve Jobs. Appropriate.

Apple has proclaimed an iPad "revolution," and has already picked the winners and losers. Banned in its cultural shift are literary illustrations of gay couples making, and of Ulysses. Allowed are heterosexual couples making out and swimsuit editions.