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Censorship is bulls***.

 

That being said, nothing in here suggests that Palin or her followers had anything to do with the censorship. It seems the newspapers did that on their own. So this isn't her or her followers fault. At least, not as far as I can tell from these sources.

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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 11:07 AM)
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Now, Newsday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as well as the Chicago Tribune have pulled the entire Doonesbury strip for a week to avoid offending radical Islamists Sarah Palin and her cult-followers.

 

i thought Sarah Palin followers were all illiterate hillbillies? if so, how would they even known what the comic was about and be offended?

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QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 05:41 PM)
Censorship is bulls***.

 

That being said, nothing in here suggests that Palin or her followers had anything to do with the censorship. It seems the newspapers did that on their own. So this isn't her or her followers fault. At least, not as far as I can tell from these sources.

 

Well the thing is they're censoring out of fear or reprisal from her nutty adherents, not because they've actually made threats beforehand.

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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 15, 2011 -> 09:19 AM)
Well the thing is they're censoring out of fear or reprisal from her nutty adherents, not because they've actually made threats beforehand.

How are you judging that this is the motivation for the people at these papers making this decision?

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 15, 2011 -> 08:30 AM)
To avoid losing subscriptions, to avoid controversy,

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 15, 2011 -> 09:34 AM)
Those are exactly the same thing I'm saying.

You don't think "Fear of reprisal" and "Threats" carries a different connotation from "I might lose a subscriber"?

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 15, 2011 -> 08:41 AM)
Those are exactly the same thing I'm saying.

 

You don't think "Fear of reprisal" and "Threats" carries a different connotation from "I might lose a subscriber"?

 

:lolhitting Yes, Sarah Palin's followers are going to blow up the Chicago Tribune because they ran something mean about her. Nice fearmongring Cheney.

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Eh go back to the OP, not the intentionally over-the-top language to compare it to the Danish cartoon of Mohammed controversy. The most plausible explanation here is that it's still far too dangerous in a business sense to make fun of a failed VP candidate who quit as a 1/2-term governor of Alaska.

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