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In article <2nct4c$5bs@panix.com>, Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com> wrote:
>In <2n9bgs$jb0@ionews.io.org> digitar@ionews.io.org (digitar) writes:
>
>>There is a TEMPORARY media ban until the JURY IS SELECTED. After
>>that everything will be made public.
>
>However, as news is such a context-specific thing a temproary ban of
>sufficent length, as seems to be the case here, is effectively the
>same as a news blackout.

i don't see what everlasting effects that a delay of 1 year on the holhunka
stuff is going to have.

if the stuff was sealed forever, i could understand it.

it is not like the government is trying to cover up some nasty scandal.

mind you, a delay of 1 year would have serious effects on the media's
profit margins, since the news would be stale and not as marketable.

>>You don't know the facts and you've fallen into the American culture clap-trap
>>of judging other people, their laws and their culture based on your own.
>
>Its not citizens of Canada that we care about, its citizens of the
>net. It will be a terrible thing if national sovereignty is recognized
>as a legitimate force which can and should be allowed to censor
>information, particularly if it sets a precedent of USEnet being
>treated like a broadcast medium.

sorry, but the net is just a transport media for bits.

those bits will always be subject to the law of the land they currently
land on.

and if USEnet is not a broadcast medium, what is it?

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