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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin,comp.misc
Subject: Re: News slanted by censorship?
Message-ID: <1756@looking.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 04:57:29 GMT
References: <386@blic.BLI.COM> <113@dcs.UUCP> <3939@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <224@optilink.UUCP> <118@dcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <118@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
>I suspect that Canadian law gives the government much greater opportunity
>for censorship than US law; certainly British law does, and the laws of most
>West European countries as well.

Note the Followup-to: line.  Move this discussion.

For your informaton, from the Constitution of Canada:

"Everyone shall have the following fundamental freedoms: ... (b) freedom
of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the
press and other media of communication."

Quite strong, but then the Soviet constitution is pretty good too.
It's true that there is more tolerance in Canada for government interference
by many citizens, but that does not mean that everybody takes it lying
down.  Many of us oppose any law which even slightly opposes the above
clause of the constitution.  Recently the law forbidding hate literature
was struck down.

The government has a very hard time when it tries to muffle the press.
It's usually only successful under the Official Secrets Act, and the
anti-porn laws.  I believe that the US government is also successful
in these areas.

But anybody who doesn't think the US media have a strong Hooray USA bias
is wearing rose coloured glasses.  (Except they have no "u" in colour.)
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
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