For all of America’s faults, all the secrecy and proto-fascism of the Bush Administration, all the debates about whether or not Evolution should be taught in high school classrooms, you have to give our culture one thing: we let people do what they want.
In France you can’t wear religious tokens or garments to school. In Italy your phones are tapped by the government 365 days a year. And in the Middle East — well, I’m sure we all know the numerous human rights violations that are so popular in that region.
The latest event is Pakistan’s banishment of the user-generated-content site YouTube, which it claims has “one or more” videos which are offensive to Islam. Maybe it was a video of a woman in which you can see her hair, or her ankles. Maybe it was two men kissing. Maybe it was someone drinking a beer.
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