If I was running a major television station, and a group in my city put up a website with the picture of someone who got murdered in the goddamn street in broad daylight and the address of the place where all my employees worked and said we were going to get hurt if we showed a certain religious figure, you know what?
I wouldn't f*cking show it.
Listen, I know there's no way of knowing whether or not something would actually happen. And it sends a terrible message. But you know what? At the end of the day if I'm responsible for that building full of people I can't let two guys who want to do something they know may provoke that kind of reaction get what they want at the possible expense of a shitton of people who have nothing to do with it.
Let's say someone did get hurt. Got killed. Are you gonna go tell their mother, husband, daughter that they died for someone else's creative freedom? That you had the choice to avoid making a noted extremist group angry and you chose not to do it?
I'm an artist, and I don't want to be censored. But I also understand that some things are more important than making a goddamn point, and that sometimes you really shouldn't do what may be the right thing.
I dunno, I don't think it's a good thing that they had to censor it but I think all the people getting all righteously angry over it aren't really thinking it through.
