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Ep. 168 Assassin’s veto comes for Rushdie

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

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Moral of story- Rushdie is principled to a tee, even against himself

The british authorities band it, because they have a very heavy hand on censorship. The heroic end of the film is when samon rushty is murdered. And that he stepped in and said, you can't ban this film. Of course, it floppednwe maywe have thi choke in the poccast its like imean. What was the expectation that this was going to be like jurassic park? But it was very popular! Pakeston, well, you would have gotten the strisand effect, right? So it probably would have flopped either way, but more people saw it, probablyas the british Authorities had banned it.

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