I agree with your views that these hack attacks have somehow strangled and threated the very freedom of expression that is so necessary for the performing arts . I wonder , whether the subsequent hacks ( following the first one that u have mentioned ) would have occurred , had the media not gone overboard in describing and publicizing their exploits at such great lengths .Our society , and the cyber world very clearly exhibits voyeuristic behavior that such cyber- terrorists ( i would call them that ) feed and thrive on . Cut off the attention , they would starve and stop !!!
Charlie Chaplin's film "The Great Dictator" was banned in the UK (refused a certificate by the censor board) when it first came out in the late 1930s, because it mocked Hitler and Mussolini the leaders of Germany and Italy at the time. The first UK cinema to show it, in 1941 after the UK had been at war with Germany and Italy for two years, was fined for doing so. Soon afterwards the film was granted a U certificate.
