2015年11月14日 星期六

huzzah, howl, libel, defame, defaming, comes to arousing fury

LEGO always shuns any association with “political, religious, racist, obscene or defaming statements”. That includes Ai Weiwei—China's best-known dissident artist—as the Danish toymaker has refused to provide its bricks for his planned LEGO portraits of political prisoners

The closest LEGO normally comes to arousing fury is when a parent steps barefooted on one of its small plastic bricks. But the Danish toymaker’s decision not to sell its product directly to China’s best-known dissident…
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The U.K., for example, is an open democracy by almost any measure, but its newspapers still labor under a strict set of libel laws, placing the burden of proof on the press to show it has not defamed someone. Apart from that, the press is extremely free. Implement the exact same system in China — where the government maintains tight control over the media — and there would be huzzahs at the new openness. Implement it in the U.S. and there would be howls.
huzzah
also huz·za (hə-zä') pronunciation
interj.
Used to express joy, encouragement, or triumph.

n.
  1. A shout of "huzzah."
  2. A cheer.
[Perhaps variant of Middle English hisse, heave!. See hoist.]


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