Happy draw Mohammed day!
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Self-censorship is to be found everywhere, and I don't like it. Those that have the power of free speech should dare to use it. You might have heard about this example, one of the many examples of media companies censoring themselves after the fact.
On April 21st, 2010, quite a good South Park episode aired. It just happened to have, politically, one grand flaw: it was all about not depicting Mohammed. The fictional citizens of South Park did the obvious thing: they hid the prophet in a bear costume. Oh no, the holiest of holies depicted in a giant bear costume.
Big outcry from the newly internet-wielding desert tribes, shouting about killing people if we ever so much as thought about drawing their fairytail hero again. So Comedy Central did their best to not let any more people see that nice, fresh, episode, ever again. (I'd already seen it. Ha!)
Stupid cowards. Introducing “Everybody draw Mohammed Day” — a facebook group that has now disappeared off the face of the, well, facebook. This isn't even self-censorship, this is outright obvious facebookian user censorship. Damn you, facebook! (it's today)
[UPDATE] The Facebook page was offline at the time of writing, but has since been reinstated. See also the article on DigitalJournal.com.
Check out Thunderf00t on YouTube for more on this, and more. Specifically, this video sheds some more light on the South Park situation.
