Russia Slides Back

[CanOWorms]

Lots of countries European countries, Canada, etc. have controls over media and culture like this. Culture is owned by the government, not by the people in those places.

 

[NoShangriLa]

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx

Originally posted by: NoShangriLa

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: NoShangriLa
Bush is just about as bad as his buddy Putin. Free speech has been hampered under Putin watch, and in one stroke of a pen he killed the money launder investigation by the Swiss/Russian authority regarding himself & family, then prosecuted his political opponent to make sure that he was reelected for the second term.

[add] Almost forgot that people that criticizes Putin tend to mysteriously died from radiation poisoning.

Where is your evidence to support that Bush personally is trying to limit free speech, and what do you say to the earlier post with proof that a democrat is trying to limit free speech on the radio?

Bush didn't limit free speech per se, however he greatly limit the press penetration during the Iraq war, back pedal on human rights, lies & spies on the citizens that he supposedly serve, render the UN & nuclear treaty use less, steal from tax payers and funnel it to his right hand man company.

This was has had the largest press penetration of any war in history. I dont recall independent reporters ever being embedded with troops in a prior war. Jesus, some attempts to tie Bush into everything around here is down right pathetic.

Believe what you will, but IMHO American citizens & press has a lot more freedom during the Vietnam War era than today & during the Afghanistan/Iraq Wars.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: NoShangriLa
Believe what you will, but IMHO American citizens & press has a lot more freedom during the Vietnam War era than today & during the Afghanistan/Iraq Wars.

You just dug yourself into that hole a little deeper saying that.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Originally posted by: Tangerines
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This is disturbing, to say the least. Free speech in Russia is dying a painful death it appears.

its not like they didn't have a model for it here, Fairness Doctrine

Tell me how that isn't a restriction of free speech. Don't go looking elsewhere for censorship of free speech when we still don't have it in this country