Outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya murdered

[DJPePe]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/...rnalist_killed

This is a serious blow to honest journalism. She was very courageous in exposing the brutality of the Russians amongst the Chechen population and she has done well for the cause.

May she RIP. Scumbag Russian authorities couldn't handle the truth so the only way they silence her is by shooting her.

So much for freedom of speech

[St. Stalin the Apathetic]

Originally Posted by DJPePe

So much for freedom of speech

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.

[Xmuzik]

subtle censorship is just as bad as the rest

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.

[St. Stalin the Apathetic]

Originally Posted by Xmuzik

subtle censorship is just as bad as the rest

Tell that to people who are in jail or who have been exectued.


btw - what is "subtle censorship"? Something is censored or it isn't.


censorship.... learn all about it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint