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Do note, this is someone going INTO Canada. For once it's not our (America's) stupid border patrol but someone else's!
by jameskilton 15y ago
Do note, this is someone going INTO Canada. For once it's not our (America's) stupid border patrol but someone else's!
- hugh3 15y agoNot surprising, since the US has in general a much broader notion of freedom of speech and freedom of the press than Canada does.
- ja27 15y agoReally? Meet Mike Diana, convicted for drawing comics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Diana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Diana
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- hugh3 15y agoI'll see your Mike Diana and raise you Mark Steyn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn
- gabrielroth 15y agoJust responding to your 'for once': U.S. publishers have long had this kind of trouble with Canadian obscenity standards. In many ways the U.S.'s free-speech regime is pretty broad-minded compared with other western democracies. I suspect you're experiencing a kind of sample bias, where you (as an American) hear more about U.S. free-speech violations than about restrictions elsewhere, and thus believe that they're more frequent.
- tseabrooks 15y agoI don't think he was referring to the U.S. because of an abundance of free speech issues... Rather he was pointing out that we hear A LOT of bad press about the U.S. border control in general... (i.e. confiscating laptops)...