TED Not Satisfied With Current Censorship: TEDxWestHollywood is Taken Down

TED Not Satisfied With Current Censorship: TEDxWestHollywood is Taken Down

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TED, the parent organization, is removing the license of TEDxWestHollywood only a couple of weeks before their planned event “Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm?” after they had spent more than a year preparing. Tickets are already on sale. After summarily dismissing the program with no recompense at all for monies that had been expended, they amended their stance to offer a fraction of the operating costs in compensation and all because they deem the program to be . . . wait for it . . . unscientific.

Does this sound familiar? It does indeed. This is the same charge that was leveled at Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock when TED first pulled their videos. (Link here.) Find both censored videos here

In an email to Suzanne Taylor,
the organizer of TEDxWestHollywood, a representative of TED outlined the objections: (Link here.)

From: Suzanne Taylor/Mighty Companions Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 5:57 PM Subject: TEDxWestHollywood cancellation hits the blogosphere
Dear Chrissy,
This story is breaking today online: It's bigger than TED, going into the societal resistance to what is beyond empirical science, where the evolution of humanity must go. It's a focal point for dialogue and the comments are unusually intelligent.

WE WILL DO OUR EVENT WITHOUT TED, AND IT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED, Sunday, April 14, 9:30 to 7:00 pdt: WE WILL DO OUR EVENT WITHOUT TED, AND IT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED, Sunday, April 14, 9:30 to 7:00 pdt: . Please spread the word.
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Suzanne

Suzanne Taylor

Events and projects that can shift our awareness

Ex TEDxWestHollywood Event Coordinator

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