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Originally posted by namehere
free speech is one thing but when it endangers people and gives the enemy an outlet to inflame the situation, it has to stop, this move has been needed for awhile.
Originally posted by df1
Tyrants always make excuses to curtail the freedom of those in opposition to their repression and the sheeple nod vulgarly along in agreement.
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Originally posted by namehere
they should be held responsible when their broadcasts cause people to be killed by making the arab population angry by exaggerating whats going on, its only making bigger trouble than iraq needs, al jazeera is a state run channel, its not free to broadcast anything it wants so its not free.
"The action appears to be an attempt to silence a persistently independent voice that has fallen out with a number of Arab regimes over its robust journalism,"
"The closure is a serious blow to press freedom in Iraq and what Iraqi officials should do is engage channels that they disagree with rather than censor them," New York-based CPJ's Mideast program coordinator Joel Campagna said.
"Viewers lose out by not having the choice of Al Jazeera about what is going on in Iraq and the credibility of the interim government as one that supports the principles of press freedom is undermined,"