Here come latest 'banned' Super Bowl spots

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Like the swallows to Capistrano, sketchy businesses are once again flocking to the old strategy of rolling out “banned” Super Bowl ads. Notorious cheating-spouse site Ashley Madison is going at it again this year. It is shocked—shocked, I tell you!—that Fox has put the kibosh on its rather demure 30-second spot (below) that uses a porn star to promote adultery. Have you no sense of decency, Fox? If you’re scoring at home, this is Ashley Madison’s second rejection in three years.

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