Former BBC chief and current New York Times Company president Mark Thompson has been cleared of wrongdoing in the BBC case involving Jimmy Savile. It is entirely plausible that Mark Thompson had nothing to do with spiking the BBC “Newsnight” story on BBC child rapist Jimmy Savile. It is entirely implausible to believe that when… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Censorship
Scarborough: Government Must Threaten Hollywood with Censorship
Scarborough’s not-at-all veiled threat to Hollywood about government censorship troubles me even more than ‘Sanctimonious Joe’s’ emotionally-driven betrayal of our Second Amendment civil rights. We’re talking about the government censoring artistic freedom and speech here; we’re talking about our most sacred of rights being infringed upon by the federal government. And this censorship debate is not only happening… Read more »
Radio Censorship – Egypt Bans Romantic Songs
The dystopian Science Fiction novel A Canticle For Liebowitz featured one of the best and most articulate examples of what happens when a society rejects modernity en masse. The “Simplication” involved the destruction of all things part and parcel to modern society. This element of destructive rejection resonated amongst the Egyptian grassroots that propelled Muhammad… Read more »
“We Fight Censorship” a Promising Step for Information Freedom
On November 27, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) launched a revolutionary website, appropriately named We Fight Censorship (WeFC), devoted to publishing content by victims of censorship. As the crackdown on information freedoms intensifies around the world, this website is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise tense period. The war on Internet freedom continues to… Read more »