Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-22 Thread Eric Cordian
Marc Branchaud wrote: Having read the article I can't help but consider more benign reasons for its removal... 1. It's not funny. 2. It's jokes are in pretty poor taste. 3. Michael Bay got his lawyers to send a letter to the Onion. Color me dumb, but when I read the article, I assumed it

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-21 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 10:25 PM, jet wrote: At 9:01 -0800 2002/11/20, Eric Cordian wrote: Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, has pulled from its Web site an article on the recent siege at the Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels. You got any

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-21 Thread Marc Branchaud
Having read the article I can't help but consider more benign reasons for its removal... 1. It's not funny. 2. It's jokes are in pretty poor taste. 3. Michael Bay got his lawyers to send a letter to the Onion. The situation raises a mildly interesting issue. The Onion, for whatever reason

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-21 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:52 AM, Marc Branchaud wrote: I wonder: if The Onion were to attempt to pull an article due to a court order, or some such, and yet the article persisted in various caches here and there, to what extent could The Onion be charged with not complying with the

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-21 Thread jet
At 23:46 -0800 2002/11/20, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 10:25 PM, jet wrote: At 9:01 -0800 2002/11/20, Eric Cordian wrote: Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, has pulled from its Web site an article on the recent siege at the Moscow

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-21 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 10:25 PM, jet wrote: At 9:01 -0800 2002/11/20, Eric Cordian wrote: Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, has pulled from its Web site an article on the recent siege at the Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels. You got any

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-21 Thread Marc Branchaud
Having read the article I can't help but consider more benign reasons for its removal... 1. It's not funny. 2. It's jokes are in pretty poor taste. 3. Michael Bay got his lawyers to send a letter to the Onion. The situation raises a mildly interesting issue. The Onion, for whatever reason

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-21 Thread jet
At 23:46 -0800 2002/11/20, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 10:25 PM, jet wrote: At 9:01 -0800 2002/11/20, Eric Cordian wrote: Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, has pulled from its Web site an article on the recent siege at the Moscow

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-21 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:52 AM, Marc Branchaud wrote: I wonder: if The Onion were to attempt to pull an article due to a court order, or some such, and yet the article persisted in various caches here and there, to what extent could The Onion be charged with not complying with the

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:46:20PM -0800, Tim May wrote: Web crawlers (observers, in quantum mechanics lingo) saw the article and indexed it is enough for me to beleve it was there, at least temporarily. It was, and as of an hour or two ago it was still on the Onion's mobile.theonion.com

Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, has pulled from its Web site an article on the recent siege at the Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels. Does anyone have a copy of the article they could post? I'd like to see what sorts of comments about terrorism are

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-20 Thread Robbie Honerkamp
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:01, Eric Cordian wrote: Does anyone have a copy of the article they could post? I'd like to see what sorts of comments about terrorism are unacceptable to publish, even as parody.

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-20 Thread Jack Reed
Eric, It's cached at google here http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:aTDv7HqpUIsJ:www.theonion.com/onion3842/those_chechen_rebels.html+the+onion+chechenhl=enie=UTF-8 At 09:01 AM 11/20/02 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, has

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-20 Thread jet
At 9:01 -0800 2002/11/20, Eric Cordian wrote: Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, has pulled from its Web site an article on the recent siege at the Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels. You got any pointers to that? I'm not seeing any mention of this story

Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, has pulled from its Web site an article on the recent siege at the Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels. Does anyone have a copy of the article they could post? I'd like to see what sorts of comments about terrorism are

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-20 Thread Robbie Honerkamp
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:01, Eric Cordian wrote: Does anyone have a copy of the article they could post? I'd like to see what sorts of comments about terrorism are unacceptable to publish, even as parody.