Peru’s President Backs Censorious Act

According to a press release alert from the attentive International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), Peruvian President Alan Garcia has come out in favor of an incident where art from the cartoonist-illustrator Piero Quijano was removed from an exhibition because they criticized military officials. The general line to come out of the show, which was state-sponsored, is that such speech shouldn't be given the support of being exhibited in a public space, but it's not censorship because otherwise the person is free to distribute their ideas. This seems more of a staked-out position you're gearing up to defend on a radio talk show than it is an effective articulation of an ostensibly free society's support of principle, but maybe that's just me.
 
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