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Originally Posted by Lebell
Last time I checked, the governments of certain countries (cough..canada..cough) put limits on what their news agencies could report and citizens of those countries had to go online to get their news from other countries (cough..the US..cough).
And just because you like them, here's another
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hard examples please... I've never heard of the gov't doing this. On the other hand, I've heard many anecdotes (in this very forum) whereby citizens of certain countries (ahem... the US... ahem) have had to browse through certain external news services ( ahem.. CBC... BBC...ahem) to get balanced reporting...
(don't go digging up legal publicity bans on court proceedings... this isn't part of government policy)