NYC's MTA takes undemocratic censorship steps
The cowards in charge of the MTA have once again been trying to censor Pamela Geller's free speech rights by making a ruling to ban ads on the grounds they could "incite violence" (via Hot Air):
Geller's spoken about this with ABC, and Robert Spencer's commented too. And there are folks on the street who back her side as well. She's going to take legal action if needed. The Wall Street Journal has thankfully come to her side too. The campaign will be expanded to more places across New York and the country.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved new guidelines for advertisements on Thursday, prohibiting those that it “reasonably foresees would imminently incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace.”What makes this offensive is that by their logic, advertisements published by groups representing 9-11 Families could be censored too for the same reasons they want to censor pro-Israel ads. Instead of making it clear that vandals will be prosecuted as Mona Eltahawy better be (she recently took to committing defamation on TV), they cower at the notion of anybody committing vandalism over "cultural sensitivity" and even legitimize a jihadist's beliefs that bigotry against Jews and other such races is perfectly fine.
The 8-to-0 vote by the authority’s board came three days after pro-Israel ads characterizing Islamist opponents of the Jewish state as being “savage” began appearing in subway stations, setting off vandalism, denunciations of the authority and calls for the ads’ removal [...]
“We’ve gotten to a point where we needed to take action today,” Joseph J. Lhota, the authority’s chairman, said at a news conference on Thursday.
Geller's spoken about this with ABC, and Robert Spencer's commented too. And there are folks on the street who back her side as well. She's going to take legal action if needed. The Wall Street Journal has thankfully come to her side too. The campaign will be expanded to more places across New York and the country.
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