Monday, January 12, 2015

Freedom of the Press?

British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe expressed his anguish in the Sunday Times newspaper with the image of a sword slicing off a hand holding a pen. In the Sunday Telegraph, Bob Moran depicted a cartoonist in full body armor under the slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On."
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CHARLIE HEBDO: HIGH STAKES WHEN SATIRE MEETS GLOBALIZATION


Freedom of the press is only as free as all of us consider it to be and no more.

The freedom to say or print or put online ANYTHING you think might have a price for everyone, if not now at some point in the future.

For example, Facebook might haunt people by selling the crazy things they put there when they were 8, 10, 12 and 14 to 20 years of age to their impending employers or spouses or even people who want to black mail them for money at ANY point in their lives.

Facebook is Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Expression too worldwide (or the lack of your control of it).

Now, maybe time to think about whether the Internet is a good thing, a bad thing, or if it might become  eventually extinction of everything good about the human race that has ever been or might be.

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