FEAR AND FREE SPEECH
by Kenan Malik
When Sony announced that it was withdrawing its film The Interview after threats from hackers, my first thought was ‘Thank God Sony was not the publisher of The Satanic Verses.’. Not because there is any direct analogy between the Salman Rushdie affair and l’affair Sony. Still less because I think The Interview is an important film, or in any sense comparable to Rushdie’s novel – from what I can gather I would rather spend two hours at a dentist than […]
Categories: Culture & Books, Free Speech • Tags: censorship, free speech, penguin, peter mayer, rushdie affair, sony, the interview, the satanic verses, wendy doniger
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