>>>There was a short thread recently about the Turkish government banning of Youtube.com (the ban has since been lifted) and the reaction of some members about how in the west we have freedom of speech and expression and how such a ban is alien to those freedoms.
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>>>I came across the website link below which claims to track infringements of those freedoms by various governments and agencies. I have not checked every link they provide as it is quite a large website of information.
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>>>http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism/antiterrorism_chill.html
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>>Articles like this (from NY Times) also can tell a lot about the freedom of speech.
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>>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/washington/08polar.html?_r=3&ref=washington&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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>>The devil is in the details. :)
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>There is censorship everywhere but often we don't see it and are not told about it. In this respect perhaps it is better to have censorship which is openly admitted than pretending to have none at all.

And then there is also political correctness which IMO is essentially a form of the cover-up lie, often intended to hide and inconvenient truth.