Laika's Last Woof
2008-06-13 09:31:08

You’re absolutely right, SK.
Remember the Canadian “Sponsorship Scandal?” The Canadian government tried to censor news about that, too, but they couldn’t reach into America to shut down the websites that were reporting the story. Furthermore, the fact that Canadians were getting their news from American websites because their own news was censored became as big a part of the Sponsorship Scandal as the scandal itself.
Even if, as is becoming apparent, Canadians believe in censorship enough to keep re-electing censors to public office, those few who believe in free speech will always be able to get an “outside line” to America.
As long as America runs the internet I don’t see how it could believably be said that we live in an age where free speech is restricted. We live in an age where governments and NGO’s ATTEMPT to censor like never before but find themselves perpetually frustrated by the combination of American control of the internet and natural aversion to censorship.