Tagged “censorship”

Some discussions and interviews on justice by twitter-mob.

By contrast, the modern online public sphere, a place of rapid conclusions, rigid ideological prisms, and arguments of 280 characters, favors neither nuance nor ambiguity. Yet the values of that online sphere have come to dominate many American cultural institutions: universities, newspapers, foundations, museums. Heeding public demands for rapid retribution, they sometimes impose the equivalent of lifetime scarlet letters on people who have not been accused of anything remotely resembling a crime. Instead of courts, they use secretive bureaucracies. Instead of hearing evidence and witnesses, they make judgments behind closed doors.

On how movies of the last decade or two fetishise the body but tend to lack nudity or sex scenes.

HN thread has some interesting theories, I am partial to the censorship for easier marketing in China one.