GeenStijl: Minister Letschert (D66) on BNNVARA's Blocking of Fortuyn Clip: 'Censorship Must Be Allowed'
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The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision acknowledges that the term 'blocked' regarding archival material is confusing and says it will take this ambiguity into account in the further development of the system. This is evident from answers given by Minister Letschert (Education) to parliamentary questions from JA21.
Should not SocialBlock, censor, call it what you will, the fact remains that the offending segment from the House of Commons, in which VARA star Marcel van Dam calls Pim Fortuyn an 'inferior human being', was not allowed to be broadcast freely on Nieuws van de Dag because BNNVARA, as the rights holder, blocked it. This caused quite a stir, not least because of the complete nonsense Raymond Mens spouted alongside it, and that uproar in turn led t…
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