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Maybe the issue is now not so much what is being done, but the spirit in which it is engaged?

As if on cue, openly gay Oscarcast co-producer Bruce Cohen is facing the ultimate Web sanction for that censored Javier Bardem-Josh Brolin smooch from Sunday night: an attacked Wikipedia bio calling him a “liar” and homophobe in cahoots with ABC. Slow clap, Internet, slow clap. “Bruce Cohen is a liar who claims he does not partake in the homophobia of the ABC network when clearly he does,” reads the recent addition to Cohen’s bio — a bio that includes Cohen having married his partner Gabriel Catone in 2008, worn a White Knot to the 2009 Oscars in support of same-sex marriage and earned his second Best Picture nomination that same year for co-producing Milk. (He won for his first nomination, American Beauty, in 2000.) On the one hand, it seems reasonable to assume his immunity to the Esperanza Spalding-ing of his biography. On the other, don’t be naïve! Any and every slag tactic is on the table these days. I’m surprised it took this long, to be honest, or that he wasn’t targete...