Reply #104: I am not advocating censorship. You are being terribly obtuse. [View All]

[MADem]

Either that, or you just don't want to acknowledge the difference.

I am advocating rule of law.

The Supreme Court has already ruled on this matter. It ain't NEWS. If you go on TV and incite people to kill people, you don't have the right to flap your gums. You are violating the civil rights of the affected party or parties. That's been on the books for decades now. Al-Manar got the treatment two years ago, based on this rule of law, because they do precisely that. This isn't a slippery slope--this goes back to before Jimmy Carter took office.

Limits on speech are many, from sexually harrassing speech in the workplace, to going on tv and telling people to kill other people, and it doesn't matter if the reason is religion, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity. That's not censorship--that's ensuring essential human dignity. In America, we don't let people take out ads or advocate a position that says kill all of the (INSERT GROUP HERE). You can't actually say you think that's just fine? Or is it only fine when the target is those folks of a certain religion who live in Israel?

You can't compare al-Manar to Al-Jazeerah. I am very surprised that you would say that, because it suggests that you can't distinguish between the two. They are MILES apart. The only thing they have in common is that their announcers speak Arabic.

Al-Manar is a propaganda organ, much like GOP TV with incitements to murder thrown in for good measure. Al-Jazeerah is a very good, varied, hard hitting news organization that isn't afraid to interview an American, a Frenchman, a Jew, and it shows the real costs of war in unflinching fashion. It also doesn't air suicide tapes like COMMERCIALS. They will do it, like CNN does, in the context of a news report, but not over and over again, to get the audience motivated. AJ is a responsible outfit. AM is a propaganda machine.