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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    French Comedian Arrested for Facebook Post (And Other Web News)

    It’s been just over a week since the deadly shooting at France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine. Hundreds of thousands have been gathering daily in Paris to mourn the killings and applaud the magazine’s brave stance on free speech.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jan 15, 2015 • 1 min read

    It’s been just over a week since the deadly shooting at France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine. Hundreds of thousands have been gathering daily in Paris to mourn the killings and applaud the magazine’s brave stance on free speech. But now, French authorities have arrested a controversial comedian named Dieudonne, who violated the country’s strict laws against racist speech with an apparently anti-Semitic Facebook post. We talk about that and other web news in our weekly Internet roundup.

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    A Very White Oscars, French Speech Laws, and the Business of Pot
    1. 0:00Oscar’s Diversity Problem
    2. 9:17L.A.’s Historic Preservation Casualties
    3. 16:55French Comedian Arrested for Facebook Post (And Other Web News)You’re reading this
    4. 26:28“Ganjapreneurs” and the Case to Reclassify Pot
    5. 41:55Paying for Your Restaurant Reservations
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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    The full episode

    3 of 5
    A Very White Oscars, French Speech Laws, and the Business of Pot
    1. 0:00Oscar’s Diversity Problem
    2. 9:17L.A.’s Historic Preservation Casualties
    3. 16:55French Comedian Arrested for Facebook Post (And Other Web News)You’re reading this
    4. 26:28“Ganjapreneurs” and the Case to Reclassify Pot
    5. 41:55Paying for Your Restaurant Reservations
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand