Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* columnist Anne Applebaum at the Washington Post links Yale University Press not publishing the Danish Muhammad cartoons or any other expression of Muhammad in art to Conde Nast trying to subvert an article that could be embarrassing to its Russian advertiser and Google not letting Chinese users search politically loaded terms. The general point that this is international influence of American business and journalistic practice seems worth noting to me, but I'm not certain it's the first place I'd go with any of those individual stories.

* have we internalized the fatwa?

* here's a case for suppressing the cartoons. I don't find the arguments very effective, but I think it's a fair summing-up of a general point of view. Also, kudos to noting the author is on board.

* finally, I had no idea that the original reaction to the Danish cartoons was cited as a reason in the government brief to suppress potentially upsetting detainee photos, but it makes me feel icky inside because what that suggests in terms of people adopting the view that the original protests were some sort of mass flip-out as opposed to a rolling set of political responses.
 
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