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Some of us have also learned that censorship can mean censorship of pacifist and anti-war speech: https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/censorship#W
by deogeo 8y ago
Some of us have also learned that censorship can mean censorship of pacifist and anti-war speech: https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/censorship#What_was_Censored_3F https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/censorship...
I'm sure sympathizing or trying to understand a terrorist's motives (perhaps their home country is being occupied by the US?) can fit under the terrorist content umbrella.
Edit: Let's not leave unaddressed the farcical idea that Europe prior to World War I was some bastion of free speech, and that this somehow led to the wars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Germany#German_Empire_(1871%E2%80%931918) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Germany#German_E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom#Prior_restraint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd...
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=766 https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=766
- smsm42 8y agoBTW the famous "fire in the crowded theater" quote was used by Holmes exactly to suppress anti-government anti-war pacifist speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States Judge Holmes came to regret his support of speech suppression, but a lot of people still seem to miss the point.
- mk89 8y agoBrilliant! Censorship is a technique used by any person in power so far in history (at least as far as I know), no matter the government type. It has little to do with the "fear of committing the same mistakes as they did years ago".