Re: Canada Can Thank Israel for Volunteering as Thought Police

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:47:45AM -0600, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Sorry, Rob, again you are having apparently a difficult time understanding very
> simple things.  The story came over the AP wire and was censored by the "Israeli
> censor" for the Toronoto Star.  I even gave a link to the full AP story.
> 
> And if you don't see the presence of an "Israeli censor" on the staff of a
> major, if not the major, Canadian newspaper as an issue worth discussing, I
> again encourage you to imagine if it were a Chinese censor, or Iranian censor,
> or North Korean censor.

Unless the Canadian government mandates Israeli censors, it's not an issue.
The Toronto Star could ask OBL for approval for all I care. I see no signs
that the Star was forced into having an Israeli censor, in fact, they seem
to have voluntarily submitted the story. Voluntary censorship is not an
issue, enforced censorship is.

Noone told AP not to wire the story as is, noone told Rabinowitz to write
other stuff "or else..". I don't deny censorship, I deny that this kind of
censorship is what we need to worry about. In China, Iran or North Korea you
might get in trouble for even pointing this out, or Toronto Star actually
for placing the editor's note in the first place.

Surely you see the difference?

Rob
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