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2008-03-29 Europe

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Posted by tipper 2008-03-29 04:53|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I would not condemn LiveLeak or any of the other commercial entities for making decisions that are in their commercial interest. That's what they do.

But the media supposedly searches for the truth.

What Fitna will do from a media perspective is not to restrict the dissemination of information but to reduce the power of the large centrally controlled distribution monopoly of the MSM on what people can learn.

The repression of Fitna will be beneficial if illicit viewing makes viewers consider how the MSM is complicit in Jihad and wonder what other information it is filtering from them.

And politicians supposedly represent for principles, no matter how poorly they reflect them.

Politicians are going to lose control of the debate if they allow it to become dominated by furtive communications in a samizdata underground.

Interesting times.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-29 09:20|| 2008-03-29 09:20|| Front Page Top

#2 This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else.

I wonder what it'll be the next time?

Posted by tu3031 2008-03-29 09:24|| 2008-03-29 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 There is soon going to be a cartoon out:

http://www.nisnews.nl/public/280308_1.htm

"While the cabinet is losing sleep over MP Geert Wilders' unpublished Koran film, a second film is due out on 20 April. Ehsan Jami plans to launch a cartoon film featuring the Prophet Mohammed as a paedophile."

However, we can but hope that a bunch of nobodies out in Internet land make their own videos that are "as nasty as they wanna be". They won't get the huge popularity of Fitna, but they can get the message out there as well.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-29 16:59|| 2008-03-29 16:59|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess if you threaten the media with violence, you can put a stop to almost anything being aired. Maybe they wouldn't like it so much on the left if their message was getting blocked. That would be CENSORSHIP!!

Posted by Shomotle Peacock2649 2008-03-29 19:21|| 2008-03-29 19:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Muslims are still pouring into the UK in spite of their use of that country as a forward base. Check for media sources of the UK film, "Undercover Mosque." You see inter-faith meetings where dhimmi Western politicians praise the peaceful nature of Islam, while undercover infiltrators record open advocacy of the murder of Jews, Christians and Hindus, in those same mosques.

Posted by McZoid 2008-03-29 22:06|| 2008-03-29 22:06|| Front Page Top

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