Missed It: Turkey’s Girgir Shut Down Over Moses Cartoon

This is a mess. A judge shutting down a humorous magazine for blasphemy in Turkey right now is hardly surprising, though still depressing. This article indicates a sprawl of motivations and counter-arguments, though, including the notion that staffers ran the cartoon without vetting because of late-night journalistic exhaustion, and that the cartoon and its cursing Israelis was conceived as a kind of provocation that would get the paper shut down.

What that suggest to me is the repressive atmosphere isn't just seen in direct government restriction on speech but helps to build a culture of avoidance and blame that gums up the works before government even gets involved. Even the worst kind of speech in the whole world can be processed through a culture more fruitfully.
 
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