Is Satire Dead?

Sorry, Thinkofthechildren.co.uk has been torched by an angry mob.

On Monday 23rd September, the Metropolitan Police (acting with the support of The Internet Watch Foundation) contacted my web host, Webfusion (aka Host Europe), and requested that thinkofthechildren.co.uk be 'removed from the public domain'.

Thinkofthechildren.co.uk was a site that satirized the British tabloids coverage of child murders and paedophiles.  Now, granted, those are likely to be fairly sensitive topics to try and write satire about, and, in all honesty, I had not seen the site before it was taken down.  The issue here, though, isn't if the site was actually funny, its that it serve a legitimate purpose in criticizing the way that some people - particularly those running tabloids - were making a fair amount of money by writing about (and writing about and writing about) paedophiles and child murders.

If you want to read the full story of what has happened, and find out how to get updated as the webmaster attempts to find a new home for his site, be sure to check out http://thinkofthechildren.co.uk