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Ok granted China is light years behind the US, but we also have some crazy stories. A Dakota Pipeline Protests journalist was stopped at the US border, "raisin
by wallace_f 8y ago
Ok granted China is light years behind the US, but we also have some crazy stories.
A Dakota Pipeline Protests journalist was stopped at the US border, "raising press freedom alarms."(1) Laura Poitras, Greenwald, Ladar Levison have been obviously victims of ill will from US authorities. Of course, don't forget the "get Gary Webb team" of industry experts the CIA watched over, which set out to "we're going to take away his Pulitzer."(2) Non-radical political parties are swat raided, intimidated, and silenced by secret courts in the US(3).
Of course this is just the start to a very long list. But comments which suggest everything is fine in this regard really worry me, as someone who loves America and its values.
1-https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/business/media/canadian-journalists-detention-at-us-border-raises-press-freedom-alarms.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/business/media/canadian-j...
2-https://theintercept.com/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/ https://theintercept.com/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-m...
3-https://youtu.be/M31ZCh1VeX8 https://youtu.be/M31ZCh1VeX8