The latest right-wing social media platform touting its free speech credentials has some notable exceptions to those freedoms – swearing and porn.
Tag: censorship
The Video Nasties Documentaries
A selection of predictably hysterical and ill-informed British TV documentaries and discussion shows from the height of the Video Nasty moral panic.
Academic Click ‘Bate: The War On Porn Continues
The latest academic anti-porn study is full of holes, misinformation, scaremongering and supposition – don’t be fooled.
A Movie With Your Morning Paper
Remembering the time when tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers contained yesterday’s films.
Banned And Damned: Sex, Violence And Blasphemy On Channel 4 In The 1990s
Provocative documentaries about forbidden culture, from the days when Channel 4 was still a credible and daring broadcaster.
The Rise of Sensitive Authoritarianism
The silencing of dissent – and why more government powers to control speech are the last thing we need.
Reframing Hollywood: The Moral Superiority Of Finding Everything Problematic
The ignoble desire to find every old movie offensive and dangerous is the classic sign of the censorial belief that you know better than everyone else.
Would You Wish Your Servant To Read This? The Elitism Of Moral Panics
The class war raging behind every call for ‘something to be done’ about the dubious pleasures of the great unwashed.
The Silencing Of Dangerous Ideas: Britain’s Shameful Free Speech History Is Not About To Change
The UK government’s sudden and selective embrace of free speech is a little hard to swallow.
The BBC’s Banned Songs Of The Gulf War
The tunes considered too dangerous and subversive to be played on national radio during Desert Storm.
Larry Flynt 1942 – 2021
Remembering the revolutionary, rebellious and defiant publisher of Hustler, free speech icon and thorn in the side of religious and political hypocrites.
Why The Past Matters
The Critical Drinker’s passionate defence of the art of yesterday, no matter how much it clashes with current ideas.