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I noticed that on her website, Streisand is calling this "censorship." Anyone with even an elementary understanding of First Amendment law knows that censorship can only be done by an agency of the government. There is no suggestion that the FCC or any other part of government was involved in this.

When asked what historic figure he would most like to portray in a biographical movie, Ed Asner said that he would choose to portray Stalin. Given his politics, it's clear that such a movie would be at least as fictionalized as "The Reagans" ... but to improve Stalin's image rather than to smear it.

She also says on her website:

Indeed, today marks a sad day for artistic freedom - one of the most important elements of an open and democratic society.

Indeed. What would America be without artistic freedom. I remember specifically that phrase in the Constitution (which I choose to capitalize, even if Babs does not... call it artistic freedom) in which the framers wax poetically about religious symbols displayed in urine and dildo exhibits in public libraries.