In fact it is epoch-making: Facebookistan is the first critical documentary film about Facebook – not just in Denmark, but surprisingly enough throughout the whole world. We all communicate with each other on Facebook everyday, but this gigantic global and hermetically sealed company has almost completely avoided critical supervision, even though it must be one […]
Freedom of Speech
I AM TAKING A PAUSE FOR THOUGHT
Seldom have I felt so out of step with the public debate as I have done since the terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen. It seems to be impossible to in any way counteract the absurd tendency to compare any defence of the freedom of speech with intolerance or even incitement against Muslims And the problem […]
THE ENCOUNTER WITH OUR TIME’S MOST DANGEROUS FASCISM
The assault on Charlie Hebdo ought to be a turning point in the debate about Islamism and Freedom of Speech. I Hope! For God’s sake let’s start talking about what we can do about our times’ most dangerous totalitarian movement. The Islamists call themselves Muslims, but this is not their most important aspect: The Islamic […]
A MINOR SENSATION
Apple has finally listened to sense and decided to REVERSE a decision to censure a French book with a naked woman on the cover out of the iBookstore. Naturally, Gyldendal and myself will take immediate steps to re-evaluate the Hippy books in the iBookstore – and our hope is as light green as a hardly […]