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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I am sure it suits the extremists and terrorists just fine to increase publication. They want to bring the fight to as many fronts as possible. I see their attacks, including the one on Charlie Hebdo, less as a silencing tactic and more of an invitation to escalate. Increasing publication just feeds into that.
The best response is for everyone to go about their business like they did a week ago. If people/media were not going to publish the images on January 6th because they are in bad taste, then they shouldn't today just out of spite. Changing our behavior at all gives them power.
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The media was not publishing because they were afraid of the consequences, bad taste is not a decision point for media. It could be physical fear, it could be for the protection of their employees in the middle east, or it could just be fear of the commercial implications.
Some of the international news organizations even admitted that prior to the killings in Paris, it was thought that a local paper like Charlie Hebdo was safe because they did not have a mideast bureau and had no interests or employees to protect.
The fact is that the status quo was a change in behavior(a censored press), and they did have all the power. The idea is to change that and get back to discussing and writting about ideas, rather then killing for them. So its an escalation towards a free press, besides that the new cover is completely benign, a very positive message.