Originally posted by fakedirt
with regards to your first two statements, one could easily transpose these statements
into the western context.
? How? No Western government imposes censorship like Iran. There is no comparison.
Originally posted by fakedirt
i respectfully disagree with your third statement regarding the banning due to non-payment.
I respectfully point out that this is documented. Everything else is just opinion. OFCOM regularly fines organisations who infringe the rules. PressTV is no different, except that it is Iranian government funded and controlled.
Originally posted by fakedirt
i would appreciate answers from you to questions offered in my last parlez as well as the
question, when choice is denied, what is left?
You did not really pose questions, a few statements maybe. Choice is only being denied because PressTV have put themselves in a position by not paying a fine, levied for legitimate reasons. Had PressTV paid the fine then their broadcasts would not have been stopped. If you have not done so you should read the OFCOM ruling which led to the imposition of the fine - you may not agree with the reasons, but they are detailed.
Thing is, unless you can proffer evidence that the Independent Regulator OFCOM has been nobbled and has somehow started a programme of censorship, I will have to rely on the compelling evidence so presented in the public records. All else is opinion.
Like I said, perhaps the conspiracy here is how Iran plays a game to perpetuate the victim status. They’ll pay the fine and be back on the air in a couple of weeks, but only after they’ve had a good round of complaining that somehow they are being hard done by. They’ll get a few more supports, the curious interested and maybe harden a few hearts of those convinced that the institutions of the West are corrupt and bad and the Islamic Republic is all that is good in the world.
Regards
