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== Professional Wrestling ==
* In any [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] footage before their name change, any time the initials "WWF" are mentioned, the audio suddenly goes dead just around the letter "F"; in the same vein, any time the WWF's Attitude Era "scratch" logo is shown on screen, it is covered by [[Pixellation]] (from on-screen graphic logos down to the WWF patch on referee's shirts), and the on-screen "bug" of the logo is covered up by a black-bordered version of the current WWE logo. This is due to a settlement of a trademark infringement suit brought by the World Wildlife Fund.
** Due to a weird legal grey area in the United Kingdom, older WWE events are allowed to be released in their original uncut format as "Tagged Classics"; this means that the audio and video are both uncut and uncensored, and are presented in their original condition. Unfortunately, these releases are region-locked (and in PAL format), but that can often be worked around... one way or another...
** The old WWF logo got a literal clumsy censorship treatment during the [[Attitude Era|Old]] [[Retraux|School]] [[WWE Raw|Raw]] special, nevertheless. The title cards show the untouched WWF splash screen, not counting the crossed out "World Wrestling Federation" title, supported by the promotion's current name written below. The logo remains unchanged even during the show.
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