Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* Did a prominent figure at a major American university use intimidation and veiled threats of violence in helping to suppress a group in its desire to display the Danish cartoons in 2006?

* Kenan Malik rips into incitement laws, which he believes were used by the courts in Great Britain to unfairly jail leaders of protests against the Danish cartoons. Ironically -- the kind of irony that makes you want to lie down -- the legal suppression of certain forms of speech got a boost in many countries by laws designed to go after the original expression. So both unpopular speech and protests against the same have been used as platforms to reduce free speech.

* any North American bloggers or print folk that complain about anything concerning their jobs should be stuffed in a box and shipped to Yemen, where legal action against papers covering the Danish Cartoons controversy is merely one movement in a symphony of horrors visited upon that country's journalists.

* it's not always easy to agree with Christopher Hitchens, but I think he's dead-on when calling out American newspaper editors for not printing the Danish cartoons when it was right and necessary to do so.

* this article notes a groundbreaking decision for press freedom in Indonesia that involved legal action following a newspaper's publication of the Danish cartoons.
 
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