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BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK

03 Aug 11 - 10:09 AM (#3200903)
Subject: BS: Jon Stewat Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

the story


03 Aug 11 - 11:29 AM (#3200948)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: gnu

I SAY!


03 Aug 11 - 11:34 AM (#3200951)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST,Jack Campin

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


03 Aug 11 - 11:43 AM (#3200961)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

superinjunctions about reporting on bankers

Huh?


03 Aug 11 - 11:47 AM (#3200969)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: McGrath of Harlow

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

For example...


03 Aug 11 - 11:50 AM (#3200976)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

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


03 Aug 11 - 12:18 PM (#3200997)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Big Mick

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.


03 Aug 11 - 12:34 PM (#3201006)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Bettynh

Is the net censored as well? The original story.


03 Aug 11 - 12:38 PM (#3201011)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

Can people outside the US see Daily Show clips.


03 Aug 11 - 12:52 PM (#3201018)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST,Jack Campin

"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.


03 Aug 11 - 01:44 PM (#3201056)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

"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.


03 Aug 11 - 03:34 PM (#3201150)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST,Richard Bridge on Chrome

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


03 Aug 11 - 03:35 PM (#3201153)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

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


03 Aug 11 - 03:37 PM (#3201154)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: BTNG

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


03 Aug 11 - 03:43 PM (#3201156)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: gnu

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.


03 Aug 11 - 03:48 PM (#3201160)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

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


03 Aug 11 - 10:57 PM (#3201397)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST

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.


03 Aug 11 - 11:01 PM (#3201398)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: ollaimh

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!


04 Aug 11 - 03:04 PM (#3201807)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: kendall

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


04 Aug 11 - 03:53 PM (#3201849)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: gnu

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


04 Aug 11 - 05:25 PM (#3201913)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

hehe hehe


04 Aug 11 - 06:39 PM (#3201985)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Mrrzy

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


04 Aug 11 - 06:42 PM (#3201988)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

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


04 Aug 11 - 08:16 PM (#3202068)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack Campin

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?


05 Aug 11 - 02:31 AM (#3202167)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Keith A of Hertford

"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.


05 Aug 11 - 05:51 PM (#3202290)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: GUEST,Mrr at work

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


05 Aug 11 - 06:05 PM (#3202301)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

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.


05 Aug 11 - 06:06 PM (#3202303)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack Campin

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/


05 Aug 11 - 06:12 PM (#3202307)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

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.


05 Aug 11 - 07:08 PM (#3202356)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: ollaimh

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


05 Aug 11 - 07:37 PM (#3202368)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Jack the Sailor

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


06 Aug 11 - 03:39 AM (#3202511)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Dave the Gnome

No one expects the Spanish inquisition...

DtG


06 Aug 11 - 04:18 AM (#3202531)
Subject: RE: BS: Jon Stewart Censored in the UK
From: Musket

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

Cue nostalgic humour..