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Inside the Shanghai Radio Staiton Bellevue, Your rhetoric sounds good only at the most superficial of levels. Want some examples of censorship on American blogs? What if I posted the name of Valerie Plame and her work status 3 years ago? (See: Scooter Libby) What if I decided to gather up a collection of child p o r n? What if I posted your personal contact information, while alleging that I personally witnessed you engaged in sexual relations with an unconsenting farm animal? What if I decided to post a video-cap of Harry Potter? (See: MPAA.) Or, god forbid, what if I happened to be a Chinese-American engineer who posted publically available information about the design of the US Navy's Quiet Electric Drive? (See: Chi Mak.) Or, what if I happen to be in Germany, and post a blog that questions the scale of the Holocaust? (See: David Irving.) Or, what if I happen to be Chinese-American, Muslim, and a chaplin... and in my blog mention the prisoners at Gitmo that I had been comforting? (See: James Yee.) How about it, bellevue? Are you going to give us the tired justifications that we've always heard on these issues, or are you going to admit that even the United States has limitations on what passes for "free speech", even in the internet sphere? |