russian officials threaten Swiss news for printing image of putin wearing clown nose

[butters]

Zurich newspaper the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, published the piece "Between Superheroes and Villains: The Power of Memes in the Ukraine War." It discussed how viral images played a part in discussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The lead image featured Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Iron Man next Putin with a clown nose and colorful face paint.

Its intent appears to have been to illustrate the type of imagery used, rather than to argue that the newspaper or its writers consider Putin to be a clown.

Russia's embassy in Switzerland responded with a letter to the newspaper's editor, describing itself as "extremely outraged" by the image.

The letter argued that freedom of speech was not an excuse to publish "insults and fakes."

It took special offense at the rainbow colors on Putin's face, citing his hostility to LGBTQ people.

shades of 'it is verboten to print images of muhammad' or 'the image of the emperor is sacrosanct'

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-threatens-legal-action-newspaper-image-putin-clown-2022-7

 

[Rightguide]

I noticed the image wasn't shown or linked to so the threat must have worked. Why didn't you post it?

 

[butters]

I noticed the image wasn't shown or linked to so the threat must have worked. Why didn't you post it?

of course it's there, in the link i provided first

but since you can't seem to work out how to access their site for free using google to log in (bless your heart), i'll even provide you a twitter post of the image...the one the article used to discuss the use of memes and their impacts on social thinking

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498527350660734979

 

[jaF0]

Why shouldn't a clown have a red nose?

 

[jaF0]

Will he get mad and stomp his feet ????



(In big clown shoes?)