Govt Sponsored Website Censors Fjordman
From the desk of Paul Belien on Fri, 2006-07-21 12:57
Kifkif.be, a Brussels-based website lavishly subsidized by the Belgian (Flemish and Brussels Regional) authorities and by the King Baudouin Foundation (which is controlled by the Belgian royal family), censored a reader’s comment linking to the Fjordman article In Praise of the First and Second Amendments which was published on our website yesterday.
On the kifkif forum a certain Corneel remarked that the Fjordman text makes him wonder whether The Brussels Journal might be right. The link was removed and replaced by the message
“link naar xenofobe en provocerende tekst verwijderd door moderatie” (Link to xenophobic and provoking text removed by moderator)
and Corneel was warned:
“Corneel, je weet dat linken naar dergelijke teksten van dergelijke sites niet mogen gepost worden!” (Corneel, you know that it is forbidden to link to that kind of texts on that kind of sites!)
Kifkif does not want to lose its subsidies.
take care of yourselves
Submitted by Juan Golblado on Wed, 2006-07-26 00:38.
I decided to re-read Fjorman's article to see what this was about. When I got to the end I saw.
Perhaps the censors just banned the Brussels Journal as such, but if they read the article to the end they will have seen the call for the right to bear arms. As a US citizen I find it hideously sad to say this, but you probably scared the shit out of those people.
How long as it been since you've had the right to bear arms in Belgium? Just a few years ago the right to keep arms - not bear arms as in carry one around, that right has long been gone, but just keep one at home - was taken away here in the UK with hardly a whimper of complaint a few years back.
When I first read Fjordman's article, I thought of writing you a comment saying this website is not the place to talk about the right to bear arms. That is much heavier going (and scarier to more people) than the right to speak your mind, and we need you to keep your right to speak your mind. If you start talking about guns, you will scare off some people who would otherwise defend your right to speak your mind.
Sad but true.
recursive irony?
Submitted by crawdad on Sat, 2006-07-22 04:34.
Soooo.... they censored a link to an article complaining about increasing censorship? And declared to be hate-speech a complaint about the increasing frivolous labelling of complaints as hate-speech?
This SHOULD be funny, not true.
Unbelievable
Submitted by JimMtnViewCaUSA on Fri, 2006-07-21 16:51.
One can only shake one's head.
On the other hand, look back over the last few decades. Europe has been the arsenal of Islam. It provides the technology and brainpower. Perhaps we should assume that important parts of Europe will, in the end, side with Sharia against "Western Values".