This is what prior restraint looks like

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Last night, while being interviewed by Charlie Rose with Janine Gibson and former NSAer Stewart Baker in New York, Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger pulled out of his jacket pocket a symbol of press freedom and attempts to muzzle it: a piece of the Mac that the UK’s spies from GCHQ destroyed in the paper’s basement. The rest is destined for a museum in London and the Newseum in Washington.

2 responses to “This is what prior restraint looks like”

  1. Das Schtaunkhauser Avatar
    Das Schtaunkhauser

    It used to be easy to know if you were a bad guy because you were goose-stepping. Today’s Stasi are better at disguising themselves using words like “Security” and “Freedom”. I can suggest reading a book called Manufacturing Consent which explains why people like David Gregory are no better (and possibly worse) than Nazi Propagandists. They find our lack of faith disturbing….

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  3. Edward Smith Avatar
    Edward Smith

    The real tip off is finding a detailed history of the Nazi Party’s rise to power in 1930’s Germany; then compare and contrast the propaganda to now.
    Perhaps antacid should be taken first.

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