On 4 December 2010 21:29, Andrew R Paterson <[email protected]> wrote: > Here we are people - in the western democracy of UK - great buddy of the good > 'ol US of A - guardian of our freedom of the press etc - past harsh critic of > the USSR, Iran etc and recently China blocking google. > Pray tell me, how come our lot now block WikiLeaks? > What a bunch of hypocrits. > > Interesting response from the net when trying to access http://wikileaks.org It's because this is For A Good Cause, and is Protecting The People. In other words, they're afraid we might actually find out they're not doing their job and think less of them. I guess this isn't where we got the phrase 'A little information can be a good thing'... governments today seem to think just the opposite.
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