AIB Knockout: Objectionable or not
After the All India Bakchod team issued a letter explaining their point-of-view, internet parallel, The Viral Fever (TVF) has also issued a video message in support of the roast.Citing an example, one of the members of the TVF team, explains that if she is a vegetarian, she wouldn't expect sea food to be taken off the menu of a restaurant she is visiting. She would just opt not to order that as she is allergic to it. The TVF community are talking about the bigger picture in their video, where they claim that the reaction to the 'roast' is a scary one. They insist that if the same continues, there will be no freedom of speech on the internet medium and that would mean that they would have to think within the confines of what is permissible. Arguing that such moral policing will only lead to the death of creativity, the TVF supports AIB in its approach to the video that has enough disclaimers to warn people of the content. The TVF team also rightly points out that any religion or culture too big to be brought down by a couple of jokes. TVF has taken it as an attack on the entire internet community and repeatedly urges anyone who is an internet user to stand up in support of the video. TVF would be happy to know that filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma supports the AIB roast just like them. Here's what he had to say...
Comments ()
SIGN IN WITH
FacebookGoogleEmail