21st May 2010, 4:10 AM
Fittisize Wrote:The Western approach to censorship and freedom of speech is by no means the standard that the rest of the world should follow.
What about the cultures that move here? Should we forsake our culture and our values because someone might be "offended"?
They can do what they want in their countries, Its because they keep using "threats of violence" to silence expression and criticism over here in our countries that people are pissed off.
Salman Rushdie still lives in fear for his life over "writing a book" about the lost "satanic verses" that supposedly were removed from the quran in the 7th and 8th century.
American Free speech should be the standard for the rest of the world, You cannot have a free society were free inquiry and debate is possible without freedom of speech.
There was a time when a episode of star-trek was taken off the air in some southern states by network affiliates out of a fear of reprisal over the episode featuring the first interracial kiss between a white man and a black women on American television.
Another display of network cowardice
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Would the catholic church have ever gotten to the point of beginning to reforming itself at present with the global pedophile scandal, If all criticism and dissent against church policy and sacred dogma was suppressed like it was in the past?
In Poland "criticizing and satirizing the Pope" is a crime.