On Censorship

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Did you clutch your lapels when you wrote that?

Anyway, I'm not really sure what the awful events of yesterday had to do with censorship, even if they obviously had a lot to do with freedom of expression. Censorship is about an authority (typically an arm of the state, but not necessarily) using its authority to suppress something. It isn't the same thing as trying to shut someone up with threats (and acts) of violence, even if there can sometimes be an overlap. The maniacs who gunned down a bunch of (harmless) scatological cartoonists (and their staff) were agents of no authority.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

People can interpret things in different ways, of course (and are well within their rights to). If there's a right to offend, there must also be a right to be offended. Anyway, all of this is irrelevant to what happened though; even had Charlie Hebdo been the house comic of the Front National (hah!) then its staff would still not have deserved to be gunned down at their weekly editorial meeting.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Does anyone else support the censorship of the more embarrassing end of SJWdom? Because...