Sunday, April 26, 2015

Saudi media censorship

From Daniel: "This is quite inconsequential in the big scheme of things. My pirated satellite in Beirut carries the loathsome Foxarabia, which shows pseudo-boojy crap from Australia like My Kitchen Rules--the "White Man" as represented by Rupert Murdoch and a former penal colony. Anyway, for the sensitive untainted ears of the Saudi population, the word (written and spoken) "pork" is censored. Our eyes still suffer the spectacle of the "other white meat" in the form of knuckles and trotters, but our senses are saved from hearing the filthy word spoken out loud or seeing it written down. "