censorship
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On Censorship
RecoveringNewsJunkie complains that an author bans other authors from commenting on his threads, and asks whether the blog wants dueling threads or real discourse.
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According to BAFTA, ‘Free Palestine’ is the slur. Not the N-word.
X.T.M argues that the BBC, working on a two-hour tape delay, aired an involuntary racial slur from a man with Tourette’s yet cut “Free Palestine” from a filmmaker’s speech. He…
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What the f*ck is Pakistan/PTI doing
Reacting angrily to a Facebook post about the PTI government’s agenda for Pakistani television drama, the poster calls it self-destructive and says a culture that defames martyrs to freedom such…
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Swara Bhaskar’s comments on Pakistan the Failing State
X.T.M links Swara Bhaskar’s interview repeating that Indians should not care what Pakistan’s failing state does, says Pakistan was wrong to ban Veere di Wedding, and opens a moderated thread…
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Recent Spats
Omar Ali sets out house rules after recent arguments: authors may delete comments only on their own posts, personal attacks on other authors should be avoided, and no single ideology…
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Padmavat banned in Malaysia
X.T.M shares a comment on Alauddin Khilji after the Padmavat ban in Malaysia, saying he has not seen the film but has heard it is anti-Alauddin.
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An Embarrassment at PEN
Responding to the PEN American Center’s courage award for Charlie Hebdo, the author defends the magazine’s right to satirise every subject, including Islam, despite violent threats and the killings of…
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Archie the anarchist
After Singapore banned an Archie comic volume featuring a same-sex marriage, the poster mocks the censorship as denial that gay people exist, and argues that the harm religion does to…
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Ban the Noah-ban zealots
On Malaysia banning the film Noah, the poster says religious communities should stop watching films if even respectful depictions offend them, and asks why that makes life miserable for everybody…
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Little blue bird, zindabad
A note on Turkey’s attempt to block Twitter backfiring as users circumvented the ban, amid suspicion that Erdogan was suppressing corruption allegations.
