Tag: Censorship
Today, a popular Russian television station EvroKino was issued an official warning from Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media for “propagating same-sex relations” by showing a 2007 French musical Les Chansons d’Amour (Love Songs) directed by Christophe Honoré. It’s about three hot French people in a hot three-way relationship. Then, there’s another […]
While we in the United States are accustomed to choosing between Democratic, Republican, and maybe an unlikely handful of Libertarian or Green candidates for political office, Australian voters faced a list that was more like a fast-food menu for their recent September 7 election. Beyond the Labor, Liberal, and Green party politicians that make up […]
After Destination DSW had invited well-known Australian photographer Stephen Dupont to curate an exhibition as part of the Reportage Photography Festival, one would expect the artist to have freedom of choice regarding what works he would like to include. This time, not so much. Nearly half of the images selected by Dupont didn’t sit well with event coordinators, even […]
Next month, artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will turn the Park Avenue Tunnel into an interactive multimedia installation that celebrates free speech. Pedestrians (!) will record messages into an intercom, which will then be broadcast through the tunnel along with lights and other sounds. I can’t wait to try it. The NYPD, never content not to rain […]
Recently, Prime Minister David Cameron announced an initiative to ban “extreme pornography,” starting by installing mandatory porn filters on all new internet connections and, eventually, on existing connections as well. To view internet pornography, UK residents will have to call their ISP and ask access. Opponents of Cameron’s restrictions have argued that the alleged motive […]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery is hosting an exhibition called “Beyond the Paper Screen: An Exhibition of Japanese Erotic Prints from the Uragami Collection” which will feature 60 sexual woodblock prints, or “shunga” (“spring pictures.”) The woodblock prints feature scenes such as a naked fisherman’s wife being intimate with an octopus. Also, aristocratic groupsex. Shunga have a long tradition […]
City of Sound had self-produced and self-published a beautiful looking book featuring the work of fifteen young Iranian photographers, documenting the “interior life” of Iran. Not only does the photojournalistic book serve as counterpoint to the generalized, if not demonized media narrative surrounding Tehran and its people, it looks to be full of intimate, insightful […]
If you’re planning to go to Russia — say, for the 2014 Winter-clusterfuck Olympics in Sochi — don’t. If you do, don’t be gay. Try not to do anything gay either. No rainbow flags. No holding hands. If you do pull any public gay, lesbian or “pro-gay”/gay-affirming/non-homophobic faggotry of any sort, you can be detained by the police and […]
“You should be able to watch porn on your Google Glass, just don’t jerk off on the subway.” James Deen — porn star, actor, Voice of Reason — is right. Since Google updated its Terms of Service to prohibit “glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material,” the quickly-censored Tits and […]
“You have a duty to act on this — and it is a moral duty,” Prime Minister David Cameron told Google, Bing, Yahoo and UK’s entire porn-consuming population. “Don’t just stand by and say nothing can be done; use your great brains to help overcome them.” TOGETHER, WE CAN OVERCUM PORN. I mean, come. I mean, […]
