Censorship: Modern (Internet/Media) Disease?

[Abishai100]

Does modern media intrigue compel us to think more proactively about censorship, heresy, and fashion?

This media-disclosure vignette was inspired by the Satanic Verses controversy.




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Americans care about media and the proliferation of political and social ideas in this modern (21st Century) 'matrix' of media, Internet, TV, cinema, news, magazines, radio, etc. The world now is about traffic and commerce and customs and dialogue, so TrumpUSA has become a beacon for media-oriented social participation in pedestrian-oriented politics (e.g., WikiLeaks). In this climate, there's a newfound interest in entertaining heretical ideas that are intriguing to journalists at CNN (Western news network) and Al Jazeera (Muslim-world news network).



So since this world is dialogue and network and traffic based, censorship concerns and disclosure-consciousness have become hallmarks of modern (21st Century) intelligence/imagination. We Americans remember the censorship/persecution stories of the Salem Witch Trials during the early-America and then McCarthyism during post-WWII America. We entertained all kinds of 'conspiracy theory' oriented dialogue/folklore in news, journals, magazines, and cinema. The filtration of information/news and ideas has become valuable to our sense of media reliability, which is why we celebrate WikiLeaks as a 'tower' of modern (21st Century) militancy.



That's why the female alien beauty named Kitana (from the planet Venus) decided to visit Earth and began roaming around America, disguised as a Victoria's Secret fashion-lingerie consumerism model. Victoria's Secret had become the Western civilization's ultimate lingerie-marketing platform, and the distribution of the company's products and model-photos in magazines, TV ads, and Internet pages (or even Facebook business profile pages of the company and its models!) represents the modern world's investment in media-oriented liberal marketing/merchandising. Since these lingerie-models are scantily-clad and sensual, we immediately think of censorship issues. That's the intrigue that drew Kitana to TrumpUSA.



KITANA: It seems media/marketing is so central...
TRUMP: It's a hallmark of capitalism now, Kitana!
KITANA: Did you see the new Victoria's Secret catalog?
TRUMP: Yes, the First Lady (Melania Trump) showed it to me.
KITANA: What did you think?
TRUMP: The models looked fantastic in the new fashionable lingerie.
KITANA: I'm pleased you liked the fashion offerings, Mr. President.
TRUMP: So do you like being a lingerie-fashion model, Kitana?
KITANA: Yes, I do; my profession compels me to think about modern media.
TRUMP: Sure; the austere Muslim critics of Western capitalism frown on us.
KITANA: Yes, I imagine fundamentalist Islamics are not 'pleased.'
TRUMP: No, they think Victoria's Secret and Playboy are rather immoral/racy.
KITANA: Does Al Jazeera talk sufficiently about media/marketing/censorship?
TRUMP: I think they did do one piece on new age McCarthyism.
KITANA: What about the Satanic Verses controversy?
TRUMP: I believe the Muslim world (e.g., Al Jazeera) addresses that ordeal!
KITANA: Maybe The People vs. Larry Flynt is the Western rendition...
TRUMP: Yes, pornography-censorship is a very 'American dilemma.'
KITANA: Cool, thanks for chatting; I'll forward your sociopolitical comments.
TRUMP: Thanks for this interview; Melania praises your company's platforms.



Kitana then traveled to the Al Jazeera studio and supplied the reporters there with some of U.S. President Donald Trump's comments regarding media/marketing and censorship in the modern (21st Century) world. One reporter at Al Jazeera worried that Kitana was focusing too much on lingerie/pornography and needed to focus more on politically weighty matters such as the Christian world's perspective on the Satanic Verses controversy. Kitana explained that she was on assignment from Victoria's Secret to compare America's perspective on marketing of fashion/lingerie models with the more conservative/austere Muslim world's perspective. Kitana discovered that like Trump, Al Jazeera reporters were interested in the social 'impact' of marketing nudity.



Kitana wondered if this modern media/censorship focus was more about pornography/nudity/lingerie or about heresy/religion. Should CNN and Al Jazeera focus on Victoria's Secret or the Satanic Verses controversy? Would WikiLeaks-oriented modern global disclosure/info intrigue surround fashion or religion, customs or etiquette? What would be the outcome of a very intriguing subject/matter which potentially could become a new version of McCarthyism?



Of course, the NSA had established a new cyber-security division which would partly monitor all Internet activity on the American homeland. This would help Americans monitor any hacking activity by anti-American/anti-Western terrorists (e.g., ISIS) who sought to destabilize new age communication/info networks. After all, the whole world was 'wired' and terrorists wanted to create turbulence to draw attention to radical religious issues. Kitana wondered if terrorists were spying on American consumers/men trolling on Victoria's Secret and Playboy sites and what they'd conclude about the Western world's perspective on post-9/11 commercial traffic.



TRUMP: This whole censorship matter is quite symbolic.
CARTER: It's a vital issue for modernism, Mr. President.
TRUMP: Young people watch so much television these days.
CARTER: It seems everyone surfs on the Internet!
TRUMP: Quality-control is important but complex.
CARTER: We need supervisors/monitors.
TRUMP: We need to track any terrorist-hackers too!
CARTER: Yes, we want Internet grid reliability/securities.
TRUMP: College campus computer networks should be safe.
CARTER: The reliability of info-exchange is vital in the modern world.
TRUMP: Yes, communication has to be absolutely disease-free...
CARTER: Well, maybe Western media should celebrate Polanski films!
TRUMP: That's a clever comment, Carter; yes, Polanski's films are heresy-rich.
CARTER: It's in the circulation of non-standard media that we find 'legalese intrigue.'
TRUMP: Hail to journalism; I'll always remember the curious Kitana...
CARTER: She was a very 'modern' model/journalist!

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[whitehall]

Maybe the memory of some (most?) Americans is based more on media generated propaganda than reality (just like today?). The government had no power to censor the media during the era the left lovingly remembers as "McCarthyism". Hollywood censored it's own because they thought they might lose money if their writers were suspected communists. With the cooperation of the media the crazy left managed to blame an entire democrat majority era on a single republican Senator who didn't even chair a committee. Harry Truman created HUAC but generations of Americans blame it on a freaking republican who had no power. It's no different today. Crazy lefties are calling for the assault and murder of kids who dare to wear a hat that stands for the agenda of the President of the United States.