BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK

Subject: BS: Jon Stewat Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 10:09 AM

the story

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: gnu
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 11:29 AM

I SAY!

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 11:34 AM

Hardly in the same league as superinjunctions about reporting on bankers or throwing Bradley Manning into solitary indefinitely, is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 11:43 AM

superinjunctions about reporting on bankers

Huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 11:47 AM

I wonder how they define "in a satirical context", when the content satirises itself itself much of the time.

For example...

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 11:50 AM

I wondered about that myself McGrath. Its kinda like banning reference to the Kentucky Derby as a horse race.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Big Mick
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 12:18 PM

The puppets ..... They remind me of the way BBC handled IRA member interviews. Apparently the rules precluded them from interviewing actual IRA folks so they hired actors who read the lines of the interview which was allowed.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Bettynh
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 12:34 PM

Is the net censored as well? The original story.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 12:38 PM

Can people outside the US see Daily Show clips.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 12:52 PM

"superinjunctions" - google for it.

A serious censorship issue, which this one isn't.

Neither is in the same league as Obama's regime throwing somebody into an oubliette for speaking the truth.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 01:44 PM

"Hardly in the same league as superinjunctions about reporting on bankers or throwing Bradley Manning into solitary indefinitely, is it? "

Sorry it isn't up to your standards. Please feel free to ignore the thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST,Richard Bridge on Chrome
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 03:34 PM

Come to my country, obey my laws. Who do you think you are?

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 03:35 PM

I wasn't passing judgment. I thought it amusing.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: BTNG
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 03:37 PM

If Stewart were funny in the first place, it might matter....

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: gnu
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 03:43 PM

JtS... "Can people outside the US see Daily Show clips."

No. The one in the OP, yes, because it isn't at the network.

Here in Canuckistan, we are referred to our comedy network that airs The Daily Show but we can't access many of the clips posted herein at that network's website.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 03:48 PM

It looks like you can watch the show but we can't link the clips for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 10:57 PM

the british censored the documentary about bloody sunday done by cbc and yorkshire tv(i think), wit6h many great interviews with the soldiers who refused to fire on unarmed people.

they really do not have democracy in the uk, just an oligarchy controlled by a small group of aristocrats and very rich.

i remember when the guy who wrote" armoured cars tanks and guns , got six months in jail, to which will millar of the irish rovers said"jeez bye's its a good thing you didn't write an opera".

centuries of a military empire have shaped british society and government beyond much hope for real democracy.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: ollaimh
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 11:01 PM

whoops that was me--i forgot i wasn't signed in--on vacation in the acadien penusila and cape breton. just got back.

the fiddle music in cb is always great. and its nice to crack a joke with gaelic and have people get it!

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: kendall
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 03:04 PM

When in Rome, do as Romanians do. (G. Bush)

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: gnu
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 03:53 PM

He did crack the odd joke, Kendall. Overall, I didn't find him very entertaining.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 05:25 PM

hehe hehe

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 06:39 PM

They didn't censor *him* I gather, they just didn't show the part with Parliament?

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 06:42 PM

And him talking about what happened. and him on the screen with the parliament bit playing in the corner.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack Campin
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 08:16 PM

So? Did the British government throw him into solitary confinement like the US did with Bradley Manning? Or get a client state to extradite him on a noonsensical charge like they did with Julian Assange?

Who the fuck CARES if some TV comic gets told not to use copyrighted video? Was he revealing anything that actually matters?

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 05 Aug 11 - 02:31 AM

"the british censored the documentary about bloody sunday done by cbc and yorkshire tv(i think), wit6h many great interviews with the soldiers who refused to fire on unarmed people."

This is made up.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST,Mrr at work
Date: 05 Aug 11 - 05:51 PM

Wasn't copyrighted - just unpleasant to the Brits. But they do have that law...

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 Aug 11 - 06:05 PM

I just thought that the law and this particular application of it was funny. I think Stewart felt put out because he was praising the house of commons.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 Aug 11 - 06:06 PM

Spare us this racist "the Brits" crap. You could not be more wrong.

http://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/

People who are doing something constructive to make information about parliamentary activities more accessible to the public:

http://www.mysociety.org/projects/theyworkforyou/

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 Aug 11 - 06:12 PM

It wasn't banned because it was copyrighted. It was banned because it is not legal for a comedy show to show the House of Common's in Britain. Which is full of "Brits" who are not a race but a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-racial nationality.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: ollaimh
Date: 05 Aug 11 - 07:08 PM

keith as usual has no idea what he is talking about.he's ignorant and proud of it

the uk is so censored the bbc censored paul macartny's "give ireland back to the irish"

one of the issues raised on canadian tv was exactly the refusal of the british broadcasters to air the canadian documantary. if they have shown it since good for them but for a decade it was banned from being aired in the uk. as was the cbc documantary on torture of irish prisoners in northern ireland. they invented water boarding. its the british special forces who taught the americans how to do it

go look it up on cbc, they have it in their archives

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 Aug 11 - 07:37 PM

You might not have expected this but the inventors of water was an organization no body expects.

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 03:39 AM

No one expects the Spanish inquisition...

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Musket
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 04:18 AM

Exactly! NOBODY expects the......... Spanish Inquisition...

Cue nostalgic humour..