Clever title eh?
Ken and I got together before BSG to discuss net censorship and censorship in general. This was originally Isabelle's idea, and you can hear a bit of Isa and a bit of Madeleine during the show.
Censorship is one of those hot button issues. There are times, maybe when it is ok. You know the whole yelling fire in a crowded theatre thing. That said, it is pretty hard to censor the net, as it is distributed, and it is also technically hard, even if you want to stop people from seeing the Scorpions (though that may be a laudable goal...)
We talked about both positive and negative censorship. Negative censorship is when you are told not what to print, whereas positive censorship is when you are told you must print certain things. The positive variety is one of the hallmarks of a totalitarian society. It turns out both Ken and I took the history of totalitarianism with the same prof at Western.
This brought us around to talking about dystopias like 1984 and We. We is probably the first of the dystopia genre. I think it is also the best.
As usual I talked a bit about a Canticle for Liebowitz because, well, because it is a cool book...
Enjoy episode 10.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Episode 10 - Another CENSORED Episode So Quickly?
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There was an article in Wired a while back that sounds like the one Isabelle was thinking about--a man who is establishing a 24/7 presence on the web, so that he won't be arrested (I believe he has the same name as someone else on the US terrorist watch list). I tried to look it up on Wired, but they are "down for routine maintenance" at the moment....
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