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Charlie Nash: Do you think censorship and public outrage is becoming a prominent problemagain in society? Have you faced any censorship issues while trying to maintain complete creative control overyour movies?

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Tom Six: Absolutely! Society has grown to a disgustingly mediocre and politically correct way of thinking. Like, the movie world only makes play-it-safe movies now. In Hollywood it is all about a producer with a calculator who wants to please everyone and is only concerned about making money. They have a system where you can type in words like Brad Pitt and Action and the computer will calculate the box-office. I think it is the worst way to make movies, that is not what film-making and art is all about. I believe in movies that bite, burn, shock, hurt, and are unconventional. Where a filmmaker is still a warrior fighting the mediocrity. I want audience to smell the dirty laundry.

In the UK, censors cut many minutes from The Human Centipede 2 by law. It feels like I made a comedy and they cut out all the good jokes. Its appalling. Nobody is forced to see a movie. Give audiences their own choice to watch it or not. The upside is they make great free worldwide publicity for me and they are losing their grip, like standard distribution companies lose their power because of theinternet. So Im unstoppable and I keep making the horrific movies I wanna make.

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CN: Your new horror flickThe Onania Clubis coming out soon.Will your fans be even more horrified by your new movie than they were with the Human Centipede trilogy? Have you managed toachieve the impossible by outdoing your previous films?

TS: The Onania Club is a totally different movie than my human pedes. I want to stay very original, like all pede parts were totally different. I dont consider my movies typical horror films, but they are horrific and have pitch black humor (I came up with the Vanta black genre, meaning the blackest black possible). The Onania Club will go beyond everything evil you have ever seen on a psychological level. But I dont shock just to shock. Its just the way I think, and trust me it will divide audiences again from intense love or intense hate. It will certainly have a huge impact and stir things up, exactly the way it should be in these awful politically correct times. It will be a bit of polluted air in fresh environment.

CN: What would you say to the people who want to censor or shut down movies that try to push the envelope and shockaudiences?

TS: I want to Human Centipede them. My dear people, it is a fucking movie. It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief. Its art. Dont treat grown-ups like children. Let people decide for themselves whether they want to see a movie or not. Nobody is forced to watch movies. Fuck them!

CN: You have an impeccable fashion taste, and have become almost as well-known for your vintage gentleman-style fits as your movies.What brands are your favorite?

TS: I do not care for brands. I dont want to pay them a lot of money for free advertisement.I love to shop at vintage stores or have my suits made. I love bespoke suits and when I buy a vintage suit, I will have it adjusted by my Amsterdam tailor. For me style is everything! I am decaying in style. What the hell happened? In the 40s and 50s people dressed great, but nowadays people walk around dressed like homeless people. I wish there was a fashion police that would execute people who wear torn denim jeans when not working in the coal mines and baseball caps backwards when not playing baseball.

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BANGKOK A leader of the ruling junta said Monday that it will push ahead with new regulations decried by journalists as an attempt to gain control of the media.

The law, which would for the first time require all media professionals to obtain licenses, is being deliberated by junta lawmakers under the claim it would instill responsibility and ethics among reporters. Thirty Thai media associations gathered Sunday to announce their opposition to the bill, which stopped short of criticizing the junta for introducing it.

Deputy junta chairman Prawit Wongsuwan said their dissent is misguided.

The [junta] has never thought about controlling the media. We only want the media to speak the truth, Gen. Prawit said, despite its record of censoring and threatening critical reporters. I have never lied to reporters. I have always spoken the truth, and I want reporters to speak the truth, too.

Prawit also said the bill, called the Protecting Liberty and Promoting Ethics and Professional Standards of Media Profession Act, will be deliberated by the so-called National Reform Steering Assembly as planned.

Read:Thailands Media Protests Law to License All Journalists

Though proponents of the bill argue it is necessary to rein in the medias widespread disregard for basic ethics, representatives from more than 30 media organizations who gathered in protest at the Thai Journalists Association said the measures would go too far.

[The bill] was not based on the basic principles of protecting rights and liberty of media professions, read a joint statement released at Sundays news conference. Instead, it focuses on controlling the media by using state power to interfere with its independence.

The statement demanded that the bill be scrapped immediately, otherwise media associations would escalate measures in opposing the draft of this law to the very end.

But the tone at yesterdays protest was far from confrontational. In fact, a key media rep even struck a conciliatory note with the junta, saying that hes far more worried about potential abuse by a civilian governments to follow the current military regime.

I believe the current government wont use this law, Thepchai Yong, president of the Thai Broadcasting Journalists Association, told reporters. But the people who will abuse the law are the politicians who will come to power after the election.

He added, Politicians want this kind of law to control the media. Its just they cannot issue this kind of law under a democratic regime.

The draft of the law calls for registration of all reporters across all media platforms. The task of issuing, regulating and revoking such licences would fall to a committee which sources indicate would be made up of media professionals, unspecified experts and high-ranking government officials.

The bill also establishes guidelines for what is acceptable reporting. Section 27 specifically requires reporters to only present information that does not violate the morals of society, does not cause more harm than benefit and does not consider the publics benefit above all else.

Reporters found guilty of violating the media guidelines would be fined or even stripped of their licenses.

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CDC headquarters in Druid Hills, Georgia.

When a long-planned 2017 climate change summit, slated to be held at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was abruptly canceled without explanation about a week before Pres. Donald Trumps inauguration, it was not because of a specific directive from his administration. But individuals involved with the conference say political worries influenced the decision.

The CDC had not responded to an e-mailed request for comment by the time of publication on Friday, and it was impossible to confirm any official reason for the altered plans. Some scheduled participants and a former CDC official, however, linked the agencys move to concerns about attitudes within the Trump administration.

Comments from Trump and some of his cabinet nominees about human-caused climate change (Trump has called it a hoax) had underscored their skepticism, and conference planners preemptively nixed the conference to prevent political backlash, says physician Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association and a scheduled opening speaker at the event. The decision was informed by the political environment, Benjamin says. Obviously it was informed by the fact that there were a lot of mixed messages about support for climate change [science], and during the campaign there was a lot said on that, he adds.

It was canceled because of political nervousness about the new administration's attitudes toward climate change work," says Howard Frumkin, former director of the CDCs National Center for Environmental Health and currently an environmental health professor at the University of Washington's School of Public Health.

In an e-mail to speakers, the CDC summit planners simply wrote, Unfortunately, we are unable to hold the Summit in February 2017 as scheduled. We are currently exploring options so that the summit may take place later in the year. We will provide additional details in early 2017, according to a copy of the e-mail seen by Scientific American.

The conference is now back onbut not at the CDC. Former Vice Pres. Al Gore will instead host the event on February 16 at the nonprofit Carter Center in Atlanta. It remains unclear, however, whether any governmental scientists will attend or speak, Benjamin says.

The new conference will be abridged to a one-day summit instead of the original three-day program, and will be sponsored by nongovernmental groups including the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Turner Foundation, along with Gores education and advocacy group, the Climate Reality Project.

I think its deeply problematic that the meeting was canceled in the first place, says Ed Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who had also been scheduled to speak at the CDC conference. I hope that our nations public health agenciesand by that I mean CDC, National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agencywill be allowed to participate in the replacement meeting, but I dont know if thats the case. Im glad that there is an alternative to the original meeting, but Im a little concerned that it will be perceived as a political eventnot a public health and science eventbased on the change in sponsorship.

Dina Fine Maron

Dina Fine Maron is an award-winning journalist and the associate editor for health and medicine at Scientific American. She is also a contributor to the publication's podcasts and Instant Egghead video series. She is based in Washington, D.C.

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CDC's Canceled Climate Change Summit Raises Self-Censorship Concerns - Scientific American

Was the National Park Service censored, or did it self-censor?

Photo illustration by Slate. Images by National Park Service, neyro2008/Thinkstock and ConstantinosZ/Thinkstock.

The fears about a Trump presidency are many and varied, but one of the most persistent has been the threat of censorship over science. Remember, Trumps climate change denialism goes beyond the common refrain of Im not a scientisthe basically suggests that no one is a scientist, except maybe that uncle of his who was a professor at MIT. His administration has already announced that it will try to undermine climate data collection and is likely to try to adjust critical calculations like the social cost of carbon. Were on high alert because we should be lets not forget that as soon as Trump took office, all mentions of climate change were scrubbed from the White Houses website.

Into this climate came the bizarre dispute between Trump and, of all things, the National Park Service.* The brief recap is that the National Park Services main Twitter account retweeted side-by-side photos of the inauguration in 2009 and 2017, which plainly show that Barack Obamas first-term crowd was larger. The account also tweeted about the disappearance of the White Houses webpages on climate change when the site turned over to Trumps team.

The tweets were deleted within hours and described as mistaken the next day:

An internal memo from the organizations Washington office was sent to employees asking everyone to immediately cease use of government Twitter accounts until further notice.

This seems like a hasty (and jerky) reaction from an office in transition, one that might be a bit apprehensive about getting under its new boss famously thin skin. But reporting from the Washington Post, via sources with inside knowledge of the situation, provided frightening clarity on the situation. In an unbelievably self-absorbed move, it turns out that President Donald Trump woke up on his first day in office and decided that one of his first moves as leader of the free world would be to call the acting director of the National Park Service to complain about the photos that showed small crowds and admonish him for the tweets (which, remember, had already been deleted).

From the Washington Post:

That Donald Trump seems to have spent a good portion of his first week in office obsessing over his supposed ratings is a terrifying indication of his mental stability and fitness to lead our country.

But another frightening part of the story is how the action seems to be influencing other government employees.

On Monday, news was leaked about an apparent gag order issued to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It would be completely in character for the Trump administration to do such a thing, but frighteningly, it seems that this directive didnt come from inside the White House. In fact, the USDA gag order came from the USDA. As Science magazine reported Thursday, Firestorm over supposed gag order on USDA scientists was a self-inflicted wound, agency says. The memo that got so much grief was a poorly worded effort by career officialnot anyone appointed by Trump. This particular gag order has since been rescinded.

And consider the other National Park Service Twitter account to get attention this weekthe Badlands National Park, which tweeted four links about climate change on Tuesday afternoon that were subsequently deleted, prompting extensive outrage and several alt Twitter accounts. On Tuesday night, National Park Service officials said the Badlands was not told to remove the tweets but choose to do so on its own. The gag order that was issued to National Park Service accounts on Friday had apparently been lifted on Saturday morning. Press Secretary Sean Spicer said he hadnt heard of specific bans and declined to comment.

Many took this to mean that the Trump administration had gone full censorship and was also lying about ita frightening and also totally understandable reaction given, well, everything.

Despite Spicers otherwise appalling performance, I dont think the Badlands debacle is evidence yet of an administrationwide attempt to muzzle scientists. (Im not saying that will never happenand maybe it has happenedbut that evidence seems thin.) Its a tough line to draw given that we are living under a president with authoritarian tendencies who does seem to set more store by Twitter than most rational humans. But my fear is that the Badlands reaction and the USDA debacle are indicators that something far more insidious is already happening: self-censorship.

Its completely reasonable for government employees to assume that tweets about climate change would bother Trump, who is a denier. It is terrifying that they would start censoring themselves so as not to upset him.

All government entities are going through transitions, and its a tense time, to say the least. They may even be accurately intuiting Trumps wishes. But as we continue to fret about freedom of information, wed be well-served to remember how censorship tends to manifest. Often, it doesnt come down from the top. The mere threat of censorship, and the accompanying fear of reprisal, can do the trick.

So far, Trump seems to get most incensed over what he sees as personal slights against himsomething the National Park Service seemed to intuit when they removed the tweets in the first place (self-censorship!). Let him stew there. Make him, or his deputies, censor climate change information themselves. (Also make them censor critical tweets about the president himself!) And if or when that happens, please email us at tips@slate.com.

*Correction, Jan. 27, 2017: This story originally misidentified the National Park Service as the National Parks Service. (Return.)

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Scientists Are About to Be Censored. They Shouldn't Censor Themselves. - Slate Magazine

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