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Top Ten Censored Stories of 1999

Posted by michael on from the what-you-aren't-reading dept.

An Anonymous Coward sends in a link to Project Censored's top ten censored stories of 1999. While the stories are interesting, I'd point readers to the sidebar at right added by the Alternet people. I think they have a good point... Slashdot readers have any thoughts on the subject?

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  1. Story #8 is bogus. by AJWM · · Score: 3

    This one wasn't censored, it's fiction. The only weapons prohibited from outer space by treaty are "weapons of mass destruction" (e.g. nuclear bombs). Lasers aren't. Further and more, nuclear power sources for satellites are not prohibited -- indeed have been used far more by Russia/USSR (whose space reactor technology is well ahead of the US's) to power e.g. radar reconaissance satellites. (Spectacular example of this was Cosmos 954 which didn't properly boost to a disposal orbit and reentered over northwest Canada in 1979. Operation Morning Light picked up most of the radioactive debris that didn't burn up on reentry.)

    I didn't bother with the rest of the stories, it wouldn't surprise me to find a similar level of politically-inspired bogosity.

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