{"id":951,"date":"2007-11-09T21:33:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T13:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/09\/freedom-to-think\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T13:37:09","slug":"freedom-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/09\/freedom-to-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom to Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shingo over at <a href=\"http:\/\/heiseidemocracy.com\/2007\/11\/09\/editors-desk-chronicling-the-erosion-of-2d-free-speech\/\">Heisei Democracy<\/a> has put up a detailed time line of the recent anime-related controversies that are causing niche doujinshi artists to come under fire from mainstream Japanese media. It&#8217;s a rather disturbing development which mirrors that of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)\">demonization<\/a> of video gaming in conservative American media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heiseidemocracy.com\/2007\/11\/09\/editors-desk-chronicling-the-erosion-of-2d-free-speech\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/09_niceboat.jpg' alt='Nice boat.' style=\"width:400px; height:225px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we all had a good laugh over <a href=\"http:\/\/miezaru.donmai.us\/wiki\/show?title=nice_boat\">&#8220;Nice boat&#8221;<\/a>, I think it&#8217;s about time we take a sombre look at what is perhaps the sign of worse to come.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in age restrictions and having laws restricting speech that can cause direct harm (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rwandan_Genocide\">Rwanda<\/a>), but I am otherwise against censorship. I have talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/05\/21\/possible-censorship-law\/\">similar<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/05\/23\/re-possible-japanese-censorship-law\/\">issues<\/a> in the past, so I think it&#8217;s pretty clear where I stand. As <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall\">Evelyn Hall<\/a> famously said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Correlation is not causation, leave harmless deviancy be. It is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_they_came...\">slippery slope to hell<\/a> to persecute someone for harmless drawings. Let&#8217;s ban <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/In-Finland-shooting,-fallout-for-YouTube\/2010-1025_3-6217468.html\">YouTube<\/a> too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shingo over at Heisei Democracy has put up a detailed time line of the recent anime-related controversies that are causing niche doujinshi artists to come under fire from mainstream Japanese media. It&#8217;s a rather disturbing development which mirrors that of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/09\/freedom-to-think\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[375,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}