Cartoon Violence

An independent board set up by Facebook to look into hate and other undesirable content on the platform has taken up a case from India wherein a user had called for violence against French President Emmanuel Macron over a cartoon of Prophet.

French President Emmanuel Macron expressed understanding that cartoons of the prophet Mohammed could shock Muslims, but said that this could never be used to justify violence, in an interview with Al-Jazeera to be broadcast in full on Saturday.

As violence escalated in Hong Kong over the weekend with protesters starting fires and throwing petrol bombs and police responding with tear gas, a roomful of Asia's elite gathered to bid on art and wine.

In a major relief to cartoonist and free speech activist Aseem Trivedi, the Bombay High Court today said that his cartoons did not incite violence, adding that, they only expressed anger with the state machinery. The court's verdict came on a Public Interest Litigation, filed by an activist-lawyer Shankar Marathe, challenging Mr Trivedi's arrest on...

At least three people were killed in protests in the Niger capital against French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Saturday, police sources said, bringing the death toll to eight from two days of violence in the West African country.

France was braced for a backlash on Wednesday as a satirical weekly magazine that published cartoons featuring crude depictions of the Prophet Mohammed flew off the shelves. Embassies, consulates, cultural centres and international French schools in around 20 Muslim countries will be closed on Friday for fear of violence following weekly prayers.

Time and again we have heard of the harmful effects of watching cartoon shows on children. Studies have said that children tend to become more aggressive after watching cartoons and ape all that they see in the animated violence. A 13-year-old boy, inspired by the actions of a cartoon character, hanged himself using a shawl yesterday. According to ...

Contrary to the belief of some television producers, spiking cartoons with a dose of violence doesn't make kids enjoy them more.

The World Cup ends Sunday, and South Africa, like some cartoon figure with an angel above one shoulder and the devil atop the other, will revel in its successful hosting of the tournament while bracing for possible violence aimed at the impoverished immigrants in its midst.

Teenagers who are exposed to violent media, particularly violent websites, are more likely to indulge in violent behaviour themselves.

Preschool boys who watch violent TV programmes, even in the form of cartoons, may be more aggressive than their peers later in childhood.

An independent board set up by Facebook to look into hate and other undesirable content on the platform has taken up a case from India wherein a user had called for violence against French President Emmanuel Macron over a cartoon of Prophet.

French President Emmanuel Macron expressed understanding that cartoons of the prophet Mohammed could shock Muslims, but said that this could never be used to justify violence, in an interview with Al-Jazeera to be broadcast in full on Saturday.

As violence escalated in Hong Kong over the weekend with protesters starting fires and throwing petrol bombs and police responding with tear gas, a roomful of Asia's elite gathered to bid on art and wine.

In a major relief to cartoonist and free speech activist Aseem Trivedi, the Bombay High Court today said that his cartoons did not incite violence, adding that, they only expressed anger with the state machinery. The court's verdict came on a Public Interest Litigation, filed by an activist-lawyer Shankar Marathe, challenging Mr Trivedi's arrest on...

At least three people were killed in protests in the Niger capital against French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Saturday, police sources said, bringing the death toll to eight from two days of violence in the West African country.

France was braced for a backlash on Wednesday as a satirical weekly magazine that published cartoons featuring crude depictions of the Prophet Mohammed flew off the shelves. Embassies, consulates, cultural centres and international French schools in around 20 Muslim countries will be closed on Friday for fear of violence following weekly prayers.

Time and again we have heard of the harmful effects of watching cartoon shows on children. Studies have said that children tend to become more aggressive after watching cartoons and ape all that they see in the animated violence. A 13-year-old boy, inspired by the actions of a cartoon character, hanged himself using a shawl yesterday. According to ...

Contrary to the belief of some television producers, spiking cartoons with a dose of violence doesn't make kids enjoy them more.

The World Cup ends Sunday, and South Africa, like some cartoon figure with an angel above one shoulder and the devil atop the other, will revel in its successful hosting of the tournament while bracing for possible violence aimed at the impoverished immigrants in its midst.

Teenagers who are exposed to violent media, particularly violent websites, are more likely to indulge in violent behaviour themselves.

Preschool boys who watch violent TV programmes, even in the form of cartoons, may be more aggressive than their peers later in childhood.