On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:32:57 -0000 (GMT), Tony
Sidaway
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com> wrote:
If you
start thinking like the average internet user (i.e. those
affluent middle class people who got so riled up about the Super
Bowl last year)
Only in one country. The rest of the world was left scratching its
heads and wondering what all the fuss was about. US news programs
even carried th images with the breast pixellated out, while non-US
news programs showed the incident uncensored. Please do not assume
that the standards of one country are universal.>
Yeah - pity about you ignoring the entire Islamic world, and much of
the rest of the world too that would have standards clashing with such
an occurance.
I think this makes my point with even more power. As I've pointed out
recently, if we're going to adopt the standard that we should take notice
of whether blocks or readers get a bee in their bonnet about this or that
visual, we're going to have to take account of a lot more than the extreme
right of the USA. I suggest that a two-finger response is the only sane
response in this situation.