Amid Amidi’s Animation Blast reports on censorship run amok in the form of “the US Department of Education is declaring nearly 200 TV programs inappropriate for close-caption funding and denying federal grant requests to make them accessible to the hearing-impaired.” If you think it’s adult cartoons such as Stripperella getting cut, think again. It’s mainstream, all-ages fare such as Powerpuff Girls, The Simpsons, Justice League and Scooby Doo. Oddly enough, they’ve approved a program called Play Piano in a Flash for close-captioning funding. It may be nothing more than a matter of limited funding and having to make some hard choices but at the same time do the hard-of-hearing really need to be protected from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius?