June 19, 2013

‘Django Unchained’ Red Tape Worked Out in China

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*Chinese moviegoers will soon be able to see “Django Unchained,” but it won’t be the same version that was mysteriously pulled from theaters two weeks ago. Sony Pictures announced today that Quentin Tarantino’s freed-slave drama would be back in Chinese theaters on May 12, reports the Los Angeles Times. “There is tremendous excitement, anticipation and [...]




Sebastien Elkouby: Rap Music, Censorship and a Real Life Conspiracy

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*Ever since I began publicly speaking out against the mainstream music industry, its corrupt practices and deliberate dumbing down of rap music, I’ve been told by many, including industry insiders, that my claims are unfounded, unverifiable and the stuff of paranoid conspiracy theorists. But what is a conspiracy? Does it always have to be hatched [...]




Google and Facebook Filtering Christian Speech

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*The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) group sounded the alarm Thursday about new media outlets such as Facebook, Google and Apple, which they say have written policies that violate the fundamental rules of free expression, particularly concerning religious free speech, says the Christian Post. The NRB released a report at the National Press Club Thursday analyzing [...]




The Socialist’s Journal: The N-Word and Huckleberry Finn

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*Huckleberry Finn, a classic of American literature by Mark Twain, has fallen out of favor with school boards across the country because of the book’s liberal use of the word nigger. Now a publisher would like to replace all instances of the word nigger with slave in an effort to get the book back into [...]