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There is a gag order on the media against any reporting of GCHQ. Ministry of Truth is in full effect in the UK right now.

• tombrossman 13y ago
  Not disputing that there is some 'voluntary' suppression of facts by the media but a quick search of BBC news shows 5 stories in the last 10 days. http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=GCHQ http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=GCHQ
  • eliot_sykes 13y ago
    In the UK, we aren't having any real public debate about the security services, largely because the homegrown news organisations aren't giving the issues the attention they deserve. I don't know what would happen to them if they took a stand against a D-Notice. (BTW, the 2nd result on that BBC news search is more like a job ad for GCHQ) (Edited to remove my erroneous claim that D-notices aren't voluntary, turns out they are, though hardly any media orgs. go against them)
  • da_n 13y ago
    Guess I should have been more specific, it is an official D-Notice by the MOD relating to Tempura: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-media-censor-surveillance-security http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-m... http://order-order.com/2013/06/08/d-notice-june-7-2013/ http://order-order.com/2013/06/08/d-notice-june-7-2013/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora