Censorship

URL: http://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#24_December_2011_(Censorship)

Google and Facebook are being sued in India for presenting "religiously offensive" material.

Imprisoning people for what they say is tyranny, but freedom of speech is threatened around the world in supposedly "free" countries. In the US, investigating and criticizing agribusiness is called "terrorism" and punished by imprisonment. In the UK, speaking "racist insults" is punished by imprisonment. In France, some opinions about 20th century history will be punished by imprisonment. In India, books are banned; Taslima Nasrin's book "Shame", about oppression of Hindus in Bangladesh, was banned in West Bengal — and now ideas distasteful to any major religion are likely to be banned too.

Whether you like a work, or find it disgusting, please don't refer to it as "content".