Talbot - // As I have told ABers for years...History will remember Wacko as a paedophile. //
If history is remembering accurately, it will remember Michael Jackson as an accused, tried, and aquitted paedophile, which is not the same thing.
And because history, like the present and the future, does not operate in a vacuum, it will remember his massive contribution to modern culture as well - because in a sense of culture, it is not possible to separate the art from the artist.
The point spath is making, is that in terms of censorship, you should separate the art from the artist, because access to art should never be reduced in some sort of bizarre notion of 'punishment' of the artist - which it is not, nor should it be, that is what the legal system is for.