Posts Tagged “Censorship”

Over HERE on CentreRight

Concerned about censorship by the Daily Mail and the likes of Peter Whittle at CentreRight, I thought it best to help disseminate some of the material they may think unacceptable, purely in the interests of research.
It took a while to think up the name for the blog, but I finally decided on a title which would be descriptive and therefore serve as a warning for those of a nervous disposition.

You can see the first two posts on Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher here on my new site Blue Blog.
Please note - Language warning! (visible and audible)

UPDATE : I must admit there has been quite a debate on the Tory website, some disgusted (or feigning disgust) about a joke about the Queen, some for essentially continuing an attack on the BBC post Brand&Ross and others arguing vociferously against it. One or two seem to be harking back to the good old days. I don’t think it will be long before someone demands the return to black and white and 405 lines.

The Daily Mail seems to OWN the BBC…

“It’s shocking that Lesley Douglas has been hounded out of her job because Brand and Ross lost the plot.” - Aaron Heath - Blood On The Carpet over at Liberal Conspiracy

btw - (not HD related), If your Freeview has stopped working recently (it may still do when you next scan for new, updated channels), it’s because Freeview is updating its transmission standards and you have an old set-top box. There’s nothing else for it - you have to buy a new one because the manufacturers either can not or will not update the firmware.

using those bloody olympic rings….

Liberal Conspiracy has pointed out that Amused Cynicism has tried to have its own version (a different one than mine to clear up any confusion) of an Olympics T Shirt printed at an online clothing retailer.
However, the retailer has, unsurprisingly, taken it down.
update I did post a comment on Liberal Conspiracy some time ago but, considering there have been subsequent comments, it seems that LC has either decided not to post it or (because it had two links in it) maybe an anti-spam bot chucked it out.
I’ve dealt with several online retailers and knew the design would be deleted if I tried to have my own design (below) printed.
That’s why I produced an extremely large version for anyone who wanted to take the file along to a high street retailer and have it printed on their own shirt.
However, if anyone can have several printed and make no profit whatsoever from it, I’d be happy with that.

Here’s a link to several different versions of the image, plus the T Shirt file.

and here’s where I first posted it one year ago.

Please note that the comment I make in the first post is about a notorious commercial clothing retailer and nothing to do with AC’s shirt.

If you were to visit Amused Cynicism, you will see that our designs are pretty similar.
Not a surprise really. The Tank Man image is so iconic, that it was bound to crop up a few times in Beijing Olympics images.
It wouldn’t surprise me if there is a similar image out there somewhere that predates my 2007 picture. I saw one a while ago (a few months after I devised mine - ooooh defensive!) and think that it was produced this year.
update I’ve had a look around the web and found the source of the version I saw recently and it was created in 2006!.
It’s on a Taiwanese site, so full credit to them for being first off the mark.