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Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo

Posted by timothy on from the anti-intimidation dept.

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.

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  1. Availability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OK, so how do I get a copy as I'm outside France? Time to prove that the pen is mightier than the AK-47.

  2. Excellent. by quenda · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I vote for a cartoon of Mohammed and his six-year-old bride Aisha on the front cover.
        And a few Jesus & Moses gags inside for balance.

    1. Re:Excellent. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      And another one caricaturing King John of England marriage to 12 year old Isabella of Angoulême some five centuries after Mohammed for completeness.

  3. Is google now about to become a target? by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm left wondering if the people behind the attacks will try to get some of their more brain-damaged followers to believe that google is now a legit target, even though google had no say in how these funds were to be used.

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    1. Re:Is google now about to become a target? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You can't excuse what Charlie Hebdo are doing, no more than you can excuse what these people did to them, but Charlie Hebdo themselves are responsible for provoking this tragedy.

      Maybe I'm wacko, but it sounds like your saying that Muslims are incapable of resisting impulses and are therefore presenting a clear and credible danger to themselves or others. If that is correct then it follows that Islam is a type of insanity.