{"id":62601,"date":"2014-12-18T14:35:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=62601"},"modified":"2016-11-08T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T16:22:07","slug":"victory-opponents-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=62601","title":{"rendered":"A victory for opponents of free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s decision to pull U.S. film The Interview from distribution after threats underlines the continuing trend of failure to protect artistic freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly this sets an example for other anonymous groups to put a curb on artistic expression through threats. This opens the door for anyone to level a threat against artistic works that they don&#8217;t agree with or find distasteful,&#8221; Rachael Jolley, editor of Index on Censorship magazine said.<\/p>\n<p>Sony&#8217;s decision to postpone the film on the basis of public safety follows what the company calls an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; assault by hackers on its business and employees. The film&#8217;s derailing comes as the main North American theatre chains halted plans to show the release amid hackers&#8217; warnings to the public to stay away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sony should take steps to stand up for the free expression of its filmmakers by reconsidering its decision or releasing the film online,&#8221; Jolley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s decision to pull U.S. film The Interview from distribution after threats underlines the continuing trend of failure to protect artistic freedom of expression. &#8220;Clearly this sets an example for other anonymous groups to put a curb on artistic expression through threats. This opens the door for anyone to level a threat against artistic works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[366,6534],"tags":[2478,6867,6866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81448,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62601\/revisions\/81448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}