subtle censorship is just as bad as the rest
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Originally Posted by xian freedom of the press/speech is fairly unique to the US
Try to deny the holocaust in Europe. In Sweden a minister went to jail for preaching that homosexuality was wrong. Try to write something derrogative about Chavez in Venezuela. Try to convert a Muslim in Saudie Arabia. Etc etc etc etc etc.
Makes it no less sad but it does make it so much more bizarre when people in the US talk about the gov't controlling speech or the press. |