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[PrejudiceSucks]

Originally Posted by Blood-Pigggy

Because Abandonia is the most up to date accurate news source around.

Abandonia actually is The Liberal Agenda.

[Dave]

You don't even know what I'm talking about Piggy.
Information is dangerous.

Ask to Chinese people about google.

[Mighty Midget]

Why do you say information is dangerous, Dave? Why letting out this lethal piece of information? Are you trying to kill me?

[Japo]

Originally Posted by jBrereton

Abandonia actually is The Liberal Agenda.

Abandonia has a Hidden Agenda

[Lulu_Jane]

This kind of thing makes me cranky. Information is not dangerous. Weak governments who fear or simply don't respect the intelligence of their citizens think information is dangerous.

Censorship of all media in my neck of the woods goes from mild to ridiculous depending on the government and its mood. At the moment it's having a ridiculous moment - cleavage (not breasts, cleavage) is blurred from television, I watched a film about Picasso and his damed paintings were blurred out of the picture. I tried to watch Monty Python's Meaning Of Life the other day, and it had been cut so much it was only 40 minutes long. There is a war going on in the South of the country which is rarely reported on in context.

It's completely awkward to talk about the monarchy unless it's something positive (which is quite difficult to do these days) and heaven forbid you ask someone which specific prospective prime minister they prefer. The army controls the major television and radio channel. Ugh.

Then of course, there was the whole no YouTube thing for months last year.

I strongly believe that if your Powers That Be believe you are too stupid to make your own informed decision then your government is stupid.


*is covered in a blanket and is taken away by men in black*

[Doink]

I woud have to disagree slightly with your statment. Information can be dangerous, and some people have trouble handling it.

In South African we have alot of Uneducated people who are unable to make the correct decisions regarding there family and lifes through no fault of there own (seperate education for seperate races caused this problem) and it is up to a goverment to guide these people in the right direction and one of the methods used is withholding information and telling them what they need to know unfortunatly this requires a compotent and fairly elected government to think for these people, which is not always the case and in some cases a government will over step the line, which results an the media being unfairly censored then it is up to the majority to speak up and elect new leaders.

[TheChosen]

Good thing there's not that kind of stuff in Finland.

And yes, information can be dangerous. For example: Lets say Im a movie star and I have kid. Then someone makes a wikipedia article of me, telling that I have a kid. Now, a suicidal lunatic reads the article and finds out that I have kid, so he decides to try to kidnap him so he can torture my mind.

[Lulu_Jane]

EDIT: Because Mr. Chosen is faster than I am

Doink,
I would counter that by asking how "uneducated people" are supposed to change their situation without free access to information?

If you have specific examples I'd love to hear them - I love a good censorship debate

Chosen,
I agree with your example to an extent, but I believe that that is on a different level than, for example, refusing to report on a corrupt government official.