COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ON SPUTNIK
We can't judge for ourselves?
We need someone - someone, by the way, serving their own
self-interests in maintaining control over the distribution of information - to
tell us that what we read or watch is pernicious?
What a ridiculous position these press people take.
Well, of course, we no more want their opinions on
independent press than we want someone's approval for a book we choose to read
or a movie we choose to watch.
The underlying tendency towards a kind of media
authoritarianism in the views of these people should be clear to all, and it
very much is dangerous.
Imagine the boldness of coming right out in public and
essentially telling people they should not be watching or reading certain
things?
They should be ashamed at displaying such attitudes.
But it does tell us all something very important that they
are not ashamed.
And we very much need to be on guard and defend our natural right
to inform ourselves.
Below is another aspect of this cheap propaganda war not all
readers may be aware of.
Recently, when I use my Google bookmark link for Russia’s
Sputnik, Google frequently inserts a warning page telling me that it is
dangerous to proceed, a page which includes a button marked “Back to Safety,” as
though I were approaching a phishing or pornographic site.
