Counteracting and Confronting The Lies Locally - a local story (North Carolina headsup!)

[uppityperson]

1. Is your point that these restrictions (copy/pasted below) are too much, or that we need vigilance at

local levels?

Coastal federal officials said they were told the film had to be reviewed by several levels of museum management, including the programming committee. Ultimately, because of the politically sensitive subject matter, museum leadership wanted more control over the event. That could have included a post-screening panel discussion with people who could express differing viewpoints. In addition, museum officials reportedly told the federation that the Science Café space is too small to accommodate the potentially large crowd that would be interested in the film.

In addition, coastal federation officials said they were led to believe that the film would show at a later date in a different space and with a panel discussion. However, Koster told the programming committee that the museum would not show the film at all.