not really being silenced, so not really any issue to be offended over, its just the nature of the age we live in where we are all more globally connected, so that what would have gone unnoticed 10 years or more ago is now on show for the whole world. Even though the jokes were were not really that offensive or even really directed at the late Monarch, it is still prudent to scrub the segments because there are thai residents here and also Australians in Thailand and so it is easier to just avoid causing any difficulties for all. I think the left is unlike the whining thin-skinned right, and can understand how external factors play a role. The left is always more internationalist after all so being considerate on a global level is the level it operates at