{"id":436,"date":"2013-02-23T22:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=436"},"modified":"2013-02-23T22:51:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T11:51:24","slug":"petition-re-i-want-your-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/23\/petition-re-i-want-your-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition re <i>I Want Your Love<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always have reservations about petitions. Sometimes I link to them regardless of reservations, thinking that my readers might be interested (and should make up their own minds).<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t have any reservations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/en-AU\/petitions\/australian-classification-board-overturn-the-refused-exemption-status-of-the-film-i-want-your-love#\">in this case<\/a>. Or if I do, it&#8217;s that petitions are not necessarily very effective in the short term. At the least, however, they can provide rallying points.<\/p>\n<p>In signing the petition against <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/23\/no-gay-sex-please-the-excesses-of-film-censorship\/\">the banning, in Australia, of<em> I Want Your Love<\/em><\/a>, I wrote: \u00a0&#8220;This is an inexcusable example of censorship. I am not totally opposed to censorship, but it should always have a very strong justification. In this case, it&#8217;s utterly puzzling what the justification could possibly be &#8211; e.g. this is not a movie that incites or glorifies violence. It can have no tendency to produce a more dangerous or callous society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear. Even if some movie did show a\u00a0&#8220;tendency to produce a more dangerous or callous society&#8221; I don&#8217;t necessarily think that would justify banning it.<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/18\/icelands-illiberal-agenda\/\"> I think it must take a bit more than that to justify upstream laws.<\/a>\u00a0Still, in this instance\u00a0it&#8217;s hard\u00a0to find <em>even the beginning<\/em> of a case to ban <em>I Want Your Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always have reservations about petitions. Sometimes I link to them regardless of reservations, thinking that my readers might be interested (and should make up their own minds). I really don&#8217;t have any reservations in this case. Or if I do, it&#8217;s that petitions are not necessarily very effective in the short term. At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,37,92],"tags":[79,189,190,142],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-in-the-news","category-law","tag-censorship","tag-film","tag-i-want-your-love","tag-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}