Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* I think the political conclusions in this article slightly unhinged, but I hadn't seen anyone link the uprising in Libya to the Danish cartoons.

* this piece on a female hacker jacking up sites publishing the Danish cartoons and dealing out justice to men doing horrible things to women sounds like the pilot episode of a USA Network summer show ("Hacks," with Debra Messing) more than it does something that totally exists in the real world, but the way the cartoons are broadly employed as a cultural touchstone fascinates me.

* this is the first article I can remember seeing where a positive aspect of the Cartoons Controversy -- the shared reluctance of the Danish government and its court system to crack down on Jyllands-Posten no matter how stupid, contemptuous and/or reckless one thinks their decision to publish was -- has been a potential North Star for someone working their way through a similar case. Usually when the cartoons and their fallout come to bear on a censorship matter it's to point out the overall negatives that spun out of those depictions of Muhammed.
 
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