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Published: 2023-06-20T10:55:00

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OpTic star Brandon Dashy Otell has responded to Doug Censor Martin, after Censor suggested that the 24-year-old is repeating his mistakes and needs to take accountability before his career is gone without winning more championships.

Dashy has been considered a star player in professional CoD ever since he made his debut as a teenager. As Censor states, he is one of the straightest shooters the esport has produced.

However, on the season-end episode of Dexertos Reverse Sweep podcast, Censor called out his former Complexity teammate, telling him to stop playing for kills, and recognize his chances for glory are slipping away.

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Dashy, seeing the comments, has hit back at Censor, calling his criticisms bullish*t.

Censor spoke at length about Dashy, criticizing his decision-making, but also saying it came from a place of love.

Im calling out Dashy right now, Censor started. All I see in Brandon is the embodiment of the OpTic Gaming culture, that [Scump] always sets. And I have a huge fundamental disagreement with it, and I think Brandon is the biggest issue here.

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Brandon is always getting everything he wants, I think hes the straightest shooter in Call of Duty history, hes such a likable guy, and he uses all of it to his advantage, to get whatever he wants. And all its equated to is lackluster champs performances, zero rings, and two championships in five years.

Censor then listed all the great players that Dashy had the fortune of playing with, including Shotzzy, iLLeY, and Huke, but said the problem was the OpTic culture.

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Brandon is the biggest culprit of this culture [] you got to start playing to win, you got to stop playing for kills, youve got to start being more of a team player. [] You gotta change your ways, man. You continuously repeat the same mistakes, over and over and over again. Youve been benched countless times. You keep on getting bailouts from Hector, he keeps bringing you back up.

Youve got to take your accountability, Brandon. Im saying this in terms of love because I believe in Brandon, I love Brandon, I think hes a great dude. Straightest shot in CoD, thats some wasted talent if you dont get a ring bro. Youre only going to get that ring if you change the way youre going about it.

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Despite Censor arguing that his criticisms were out of love and friendship for him, Dashy was not enamored by the undeniably harsh words.

A quick response, he suggested Censor was only calling him out to maintain relevance.

Say whatever bs to stay relevant in this community because the gameplay surely isnt doing it brotha, he said, attaching a thumbs up to the end.

Censor was quick to bite back, taunting Dashy, Hopefully I get mine soon and I can put you in the place you deserve to be.

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Censor is currently the captain of Boston Breachs Academy roster and will be aiming to make a return to the top level next season.

Meanwhile, whats next for Dashy remains up in the air, with his spot on the OpTic roster uncertain.

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Index on Censorships upcoming Banned by Beijing event will highlight the Chinese Communist Partys efforts to censor and repress freedom of expression through an evening of art and performance. The CCPs repression of human rights has been widely documented but few realise that their repression extends far beyond its borders, including into Europe. This event will provide an opportunity for attendees to see and hear what the CCP have tried to repress.

Earlier this month, the Chinese Embassy in Poland tried to block the opening of the exhibition, Tell Chinas Story Well, by the political cartoonist and human rights activist Badiucao. Chinese embassies in Prague and Rome have previously made similar attempts to close his exhibitions. He will join the event to speak about his experience of transnational repression.

Uyghur campaigner Rahima Mahmut will also speak about her experience of transnational repression, and perform with her band the London Silk Road Collective. Mahmut previously contributed to a report by Index, which highlighted the transnational repression faced by the Uyghur community in Europe.

The event will also mark the opening of the Banned by Beijing exhibition, aimed at highlighting transnational repression from China. As well Badiucaos artwork, works from husband-and-wife painting duo Lumli Lumlong and cartoonist and former secondary school visual arts teacher Vawongsir, will be displayed. The exhibition will run until 10 July.

The event will take place as we mark the third anniversary of the enactment of Hong Kongs National Security Law. The exhibition will pay tribute to the 75-year-old British businessman and founder of Hong Kongs Apple Daily newspaper, Jimmy Lai who remains in prison in Hong Kong, charged with violating the national security law among other offences. It will be the first time that Lumli Lumlongs Apple Man will be shown in public.

Jessica N Mhanin, Head of Policy and Campaigns at Index on Censorship said:

This Banned by Beijing event will provide an opportunity to see a side of China that the Chinese Communist Party would much rather you didnt. We want people to join us on the evening to stand in solidarity with those who are being subject to transnational repression. The event will send a clear message: dissident artists and performers cannot and will not be censored by the long arm of the regime.

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Illinois has become the first state in the union to protect librarians from efforts seeking to ban certain books.

Its much more complicated than that, to be sure, but thats at the heart of it.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law passed along party lines that seeks to protect both public and school librarians from pressure to ban books based on partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

It goes on to say that if libraries pledge to adopt either the American Library Associations Library Bill of Rights or a written policy that prohibiting the practice of banning books or other library materials, they will continue to get annual grants that amount to about $1,50 per capita.

That money goes toward purchasing new materials.Those that dont make the pledge dont get the grant.

This might feel to some like a Big Brother ploy to control what local librarians do, but what it really does is take the pressure off librarians faced with knee-jerk complaints from the community.

Consider whats happening in Missouri, where officials are doing the opposite. The secretary of state there, who is a front-runner for governor, is targeting libraries that stock material deemed not age appropriate for children. Libraries will face new policies barring them from giving children books their parents dont approve of, and all materials deemed not age-appropriate must be kept away from children. Events, too, must be labeled for age appropriateness. And librarians must explain how they make their selection of materials.

It wont be up to librarians to decide what is permissible but rather the state, and who knows what sorts of broad policies that could include -- and who makes them.

We predict the baby will be thrown out with the bath water in Missouri.

Illinois position is much more in line with the spirit of libraries everywhere, which is to help expand minds rather than close them.

Carole Medal, the CEO of the Elgin-based Gail Borden Library, welcomes the new law. I think the library community is grateful for the law thats protecting libraries and collections, she said. Whats offensive to you might not be offensive to someone else.

Her library embraces the ALAs Bill of Rights and also has a three-step process for considering a complaint about a book: 1) you must fill out a form explaining your objection to the book; 2) you must have read the entire work and cite harmful passages; 3) the board in consultation with the CEO will decide whether to pull it from the collection.

In her four decades as a librarian, Medal has never pulled a book. Complaints, which are rare, dont make it to the second stage, she said.

Librarians take very seriously the books they choose for their collections, she said. The bedrock of librarianship is to have materials and resources available. Censorship is a very slippery slope.

As protectors of the First Amendment, its hard to disagree.

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House Judiciary Committee ChairmanJim Jordan(R-OH) is dangling the possibility of a subpoena to theWhite Houseto uncover records on how it "coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech."

Jordan's panel requested in April the White House turn over information on its relationships with private entities when it comes to allegedly thwartingspeech. However, the chairman is now rebuking Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, for apparently trying to shift the request to the jurisdiction of executive branch agencies, claiming the records sought are unique to the Executive Office of the President, according to a Thursdaylettersent to White House chief of staff Jeff Zients.

"Accordingly, for the Committee to wholly and effectively fulfill its oversight obligations, the Committee must obtain documents and communications in the custody and control of the EOP," Jordan wrote in his letter, providing a June 29 deadline for compliance. "Please be advised that the Committee may be forced to resort to compulsory process if these requests remain outstanding."

Jordan added: "In short, there is already extensive evidence that the White House played a unique role in urging and directing social media companies to impose viewpoint-based censorship. Based on this evidence, and in light of the EOP's unique position within the executive branch, the Committee has good reason to believe that additional material exists in the EOP's custody and control that would help the Committee to understand the nature and extent of its involvement in this censorship scheme."

The Thursday letter cited unearthed emails showing that White House Digital Strategy Director Rob Flaherty, on several occasions, communicated with the likes of Facebook and Twitter in 2021 to advise the companies on content moderation, including on posts related toCOVID-19. The Biden administration as a whole has been accused by Republicans and conservative watchdogs of throttling speech in tandem with social media companies.

"Mr. Flaherty represented to companies that President Biden himself was the driving force behind these demands," Jordan wrote. "After accusing YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, of 'funneling' people into vaccine hesitancy by inadequately censoring material on its website, Mr. Flaherty remarked to Google that his concern was 'shared at the highest (and I mean the highest) levels of the WH,' prompting a company executive to respond that Google was working to 'address your concerns related to COVID-19 misinformation.'"

Jordan's demand to Zients, former counselor to the president, comes the same day theWashington Examinerreportedon how Biden's Department of Health and Human Services granted $500,000 to a university in Texas to fight "disinformation." Former President Donald Trump's HHS chief of staff, Brian Harrison, likened the program to "government censorship."

The White House did not return a request for comment.

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John Lydon told the 2012 organising committee, 'no f**** way. Don't need it, don't want it' (Getty Images)

The Sex Pistols turned down an invitation to perform at the Olympics opening ceremony because the organisers wanted to censor one of their most famous songs, John Lydon has revealed.

The Pistols were asked to perform their 1977 single Pretty Vacant but Lydon, formerly Johnny Rotten, would not have been allowed to sing vacant, with his provocative emphasis on the final syllable.

They tried to get us involved in the Olympics, Lydon confirmed. What they wanted was, theyre going to do this thing where celebrities go around the stadium on the back of flat-top lorries.

So there will be Naomi Campbell in a Vivienne Westwood dress, followed by Madness doing Baggy Trousers, and then the Pistols doing Pretty Vacant. But without the vay-cunt, just pretty and the word censored.

Lydons answer to the Locog organising committee was no fucking way. Dont need it, dont want it, he told the NME.

The punk star, 56, will play no part in the Summers festivities after this week saying that he wants no part in a web campaign to get a 35th anniversary re-release of The Sex Pistols God Save The Queen to number one during the week of the Diamond Jubilee.

The Closing Ceremony, called A Symphony Of British Music, would have followed the example of the 2006 Super Bowl half-time show, during which the NFL muted Sir Mick Jaggers microphone to mask suggestive lyrics in the bands songs Start Me Up and Rough Justice.

Although describing the censorship as absolutely ridiculous and completely unnecessary, the band complied.

The incident echoed the band's performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967, when the host demanded the Stones change the lyrics to Lets Spend the Night Together. As ordered, Jagger sang let's spend some time together, but he rolled his eyes for effect.

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