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...prophet Muhammad was depicted in a bear costume, the Islamic community expressed concerns about the next episode, that claimed to contain a full characterization of the alleged prophet Muhammad. The network, after numerous objections, decided to censor the second episode and did not allow it to air. Comedy Central made the right decision by choosing to protect the lives of its employees over maintaining free speech...
...writers of South Park and the employees of Comedy Central were under especially salient and imminent threats from radical Islamic activists. Therefore, although the only sort of speech that should be fundamentally outlawed is hate speech—which this episode theoretically did not include—Comedy Central made the right decision in choosing not to further endanger its employees by airing the episode...
Although we agree that Comedy Central made the right choice in censoring itself, we hope that the media continues to fight for free speech. News channels in particular should be held to a higher standard of not acquiescing to threats, for their power to disperse information is particularly necessary...
...couldn’t stand behind.” The repression of free speech due to threats of violence is regrettable and unjustified. Our hope is that South Park continues to provide satirical social commentaries and that the decision between safety and freedom should never have to be made again...
According to Kennedy School Professor J. Richard Hackman, a specialist in social and organizational psychology, the phenomenon of anonymous authorship recalls an argument made by sociologist Erving Goffman in his text “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life...