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Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo
BarbaraHudson writes The Register is reporting that money set aside from a deal with France's publishers is going to pay for the printing of 1 million copies of next weeks' Charlie Hebdo, "Eight of the 12 people killed were journalists attending an editorial meeting, however, a senior editor and the magazine's chief executive were in London at the time of the attack. They have vowed to do a massive 1 million copy print run next week – Charlie Hebdo's circulation is normally around 60k. The cash will come from €60m fund (€20m per year over three years) that supports digital publishing innovation. The fund was set up in 2013 following negotiations between Google and the French government as a remedy to demands from European publishers that Google pay for displaying news snippets in its search results.
Will it have a caricature of Muhammad?
That's what needs to happen, millions and millions of Muhammad cartoons all over the World.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
a senior editor and the magazine's chief executive were in London at the time of the attack.
They'll continue on, which is more than most people would have done in their situation. As for the fund, I would think that using some of google's money for this is a good thing (and maybe something they wouldn't have done voluntarily). Charlie Hebdo, like most papers, survives on advertising, and at least some advertisers are going to be relucttant (to say the least) to advertise with them given recent events. I doubt very much that they're "swimming in money."
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Google's giving them $300K, but the government is giving them $1.2M.
While freedom of speech is a law that needs to be upheld, how many people would be happy with the government (or google?) giving an organization like stormfront a million dollars to publish pictures of Obama with a tail and a banana in one hand?
Except people dont go round killing in king john of englands name, nor do they venerate or exalt him as some sort of "perfect human being".
10/10 bait would take again
You know what? If you want to publish some cartoons denouncing King John as a pedophile, I will totally support your right to do so.
Almost but not quite. Anyone that doesn't follow their particular brand of Islam is a target. This includes other Muslims. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the news.
The hero of Vincennes is as much of a target as the people he saved.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
> You can't excuse what Charlie Hebdo are doing, no more than you can excuse what these people did to them,
Insults aren't the same as murder in any sane or civilized society.
Liberty is a difficult virtue sometimes (like any virtue).
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Easily the most evil, wrong-headed and vile statement I've seen on the net today, if not this week. You do Islam no favors by blaming the victim like this, sir.
>I'm left wondering if you and your
>brain-damaged, bigoted,
>hypocritical peers
The only one fitting this description is you.
>will ever wake up and have the
>decency and manners to stop
>insulting moslems and islam.
No. Why should anyone stop doing that? Jews, Christians, Homosexuals, pretty much everyone gets mocked.
Perhaps Muslim countries should stop killing Infidels, LGBTQs, stop degrading women, stop censoring the press and stop being mediaeval theocracies. You know all those reason why Muslims are being mocked.
Oh, I know there are a large number of decent, nice and friendly, tolerant and all around pleasant Muslims. Some of the nicest people I knew are Muslims. Perhaps it's time you stop uniting with the asshole Muslims against the "evil" West. We are not against Muslims. We are against asshole Muslims and their over sensitiveness and their habit to try to enforce their rules elsewhere.
>You don't insult people over their
>bald heads, black skin, or
>overweight body, or their ethnicity,
Wrong. That's being done all the time. And no one gets killed for doing so. If you think it's right to kill or hate because you religion is mocked there is something wrong - with you and your religion.
>so why do you think it's ok to insult
> an entire group of people over
> their religion?
Because it is ok. I couldn't give a flying duck if your religion is being mocked. I couldn't care less.
>You speak of Google becoming a
>"target", but did you ever realize '>that moslem and islams have been
>targets for years, for insults,
>ridicule, taunting, mocking and
>provocation?
So what??? No mocking can ever justify violence. Never ever.
>Moslems disagree over islam,
>moslems have concerns over islam,
>moslems debate islam, and
>moslems criticize islam, so why
>can't you?
Most people are not Muslims?
And Islam is being discussed. But satire are a form of debate. That's what you don't get.
>Why do you and little shit
>magazines like Charlie Hebdo have
>to stoop to the level of small
>children and insult with the only
>intent of provoking an angry
>reaction?
Because we can. Because we don't live in a theocracy. Because the Muslim rules don't apply here. End of story.
>Is that what democracy and
>freedom of speech means to you,
>to be reserved to insult anyone or
>a group of people for anything you
>want, as opposed to sensibly
>debate it?
Yes. To have the possibility to do so if we want. Yes. Next question?
>You can't excuse what Charlie
>Hebdo are doing,
Yes we can. It's called freedom of speech and freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Like in any decent country.
>no more than you can excuse what
>these people did to them,
Cartoons are not equal to mass murder. The end.
>but Charlie Hebdo themselves are
>responsible for provoking this
>tragedy.
Victim blaming at its finest.
Piss off, shut the fuck up, get the fuck out of here and don't come back.
Charlie Hebdo themselves are responsible for provoking this tragedy
Just like women that get raped are "asking for it" when showing cleavage, right? So, in public they must conceal their body under a burqa, right?
Repeat after me: You cannot tell a journalist what to write just like you cannot tell a woman what to wear.
If Feminists were really brave, they'd fight real oppression of women in Islamic countries, instead of trying to imagine discrimination in Western societies, where women have all the rights that men have