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Many of these comments are touchingly naive. Governments have always maintained absolute control over what they will permit to be said within thir own borders a
by epo 13y ago
Many of these comments are touchingly naive. Governments have always maintained absolute control over what they will permit to be said within thir own borders about matters affecting state security, whether this is about home or abroad.
Nothing has changed, just because you have a web browser hasn't given you any more 'freedom'. In the UK we still have D-notices (now DA-notices) and the media still has to abide by their guidelines or discover the consequences.
It is sad though that the "land of the free" needs an English newspaper to tell them what is going on. Your state control of the media must be even stronger than ours.
- vidarh 13y agoCompliance with D-notices are voluntary. They are notices that indicate concern and puts the press on notice that some of what they report may lead to lawsuits if they go ahead. They're intimidation of sorts, but they don't in themselves stop publication or make publication illegal. You'll notice that a lot of US media has to a decent extent chosen to ignore the latest DA-Notice relating to PRISM.