Offensive News

[kpete]

[pampango]

1. The issue may be whether I get to censor what you read or you get to censor what I read.

Of course, most liberals will view any censorship as unacceptable.

Many other folks will support censorship of news they find offensive or disagreeable. Many fewer want to see other people censoring what we can read base on what they find offensive or disagreeable. We all want to be able to read anything but too many do not always extend that right to others.

Nice cartoon. Who gets to do the censoring is the crux of the problem.

[Gothmog]

2. Great cartoon

[Martin Eden]

3. Reading is optional

I doubt the assassins were subscribers to Charlie Hebdo. Don't like something? Don't read it.

[starroute]

4. When did Wiccans ever censor anything?

Was there some incident I missed? When I google, all I get is stories about Wiccan websites being censored by libraries. Or Wiccan websites that don't know how to spell "censer."

Anybody?

[MrMickeysMom]

5. I agree, however, I think it's trying to make "a" point...

…and that is, nothing ventured is nothing gained, so include wicca, even though censorship does not seem to apply.

Information cannot and should not have to pass any religious litmus testing.

[starroute]

8. Still strikes me as "one of these things is not like the other"

Without the anomalous wiccan, it's a clear indictment of sanctimonious old men wielding the power of patriarchal religious. With her, the point gets muddled.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. "with her, the point gets muddled."

I think this is because TPTB have no idea of what she historically represents, or maybe they count on a stupid consumer of the cartoon information?

[Pooka Fey]

10. +1 Good catch!

[mmonk]

6. My opinion is that anything recognized

as news has an obligation to be news. Not hate speech or political lies. Too many atrocities occur when not separated by any standard of definition regarding the terminology of speech.

[840high]

7. kick