Larry Pickering: Blocked From Facebook For Three Days

The Australian cartoonist Larry Pickering says he's been blocked from the massive social media interaction site Facebook for three days after complaints about a cartoon he posted featuring Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard naked and making some sort of political point or another. I'm not sure of the motivation here; it seems silly to punish for content that way, and it seems like it will only drive people to the material in question. In fact, I'm not sure that we're getting the entire story, it's so odd. It seems dumb to punish people for content, dumber by leaps and bounds than even constricting certain kinds of content. Just thinking about the implications in terms of expectations for future suspensions makes my head hurt. I'm also not sure why the naked depiction is the way the cartoonist is going here, to be honest with you; that seems pointless to me. Plus, that clown kind of kicks the whole thing into some even weirder place. Yeah, I'm not much help with this one.
 
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