A Bad Day For Freedom Just Got Better
22 April 2010
I post in regard to Comedy Central censoring South Park’s episode last night, and pulling the SuperBestFriends episode off of the South Park web-porthole. Every badass on this list (except Muslim members thereof) is ROTFL, again at the purportedly free world’s collective refusal to stand on the highest of grounds that is freedom of expression, the most natural and inalienable of birthrights that only religion and government (can – and does – restrict. Fortunately, all is not lost. Freedom loving souls hacked the website that threatened Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park’s creators, and replaced it’s front page with the Mohammed Cartoons, and a picture of a man kissing a boy. FTW.
See it here, and may it ever remain.
HA! Ironically this is going to drive up the black market value of the uncensored, original episode…
This is precisely the dilemma that comes from caving in to threats by radicals. The message you actually send is: we won’t give you what you want UNLESS you threaten us. By censoring the episode Comedy Central is essentially saying the only way to get through to them is by threats.
That said, on a more serious note, sticking your head in the lion’s mouth to prove a point is likely to have two consequences. Only one of them is to prove your point.
… which is why I put my head in the lion’s ass. It still proves my point, it scares the lion more, and you know it is not just some carnival trick.
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