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The Impact of a Post-Charlie Hebdo World on Cartoonists
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2016
- pp. 7-19
- 10.1353/sor.2016.0003
- Article
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Charlie Hebdo was well known for defending the “right to blasphemy,” but its cartoonists and writers never faced real death threats until they made fun of radical Islamists. The impact of the January 7, 2015, massacre on cartooning has turned “Freedom of Speech” to “Feardom of Speech” for the cartoonists on the front lines of a new age where the boundaries are marked by URLs, not border patrol.