{"id":630,"date":"2008-03-14T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=630"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T00:00:38","slug":"censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn skewers the artistes who&#8217;ve been crying &#8220;censorship!&#8221; over a bill to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/canada\/opinions\/article.jsp?content=20080312_5744_5744\">deny government funding to blatantly offensive movie productions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But free money is not the same as free speech. Nobody is stopping any of these filmmakers from making their films; they&#8217;re simply stopping the cheque. It would not seem unreasonable that any truly &#8220;bold&#8221; &#8220;courageous&#8221; &#8220;radical&#8221; &#8220;transgressive&#8221; content should have to work a little to find a publisher, producer or distributor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Putting you in jail for your movie is censorship.  Refusing to hand out taxpayers&#8217; money for your masturbatory fantasies is nowhere close.<\/p>\n<p>If your art is so good, then you should be able to find backers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn skewers the artistes who&#8217;ve been crying &#8220;censorship!&#8221; over a bill to deny government funding to blatantly offensive movie productions: But free money is not the same as free speech. Nobody is stopping any of these filmmakers from making their films; they&#8217;re simply stopping the cheque. It would not seem unreasonable that any truly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Censorship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[121,122],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-rants","tag-censorship","tag-mark-steyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}