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Censorship Struggle Underway In Iceland

jon jonson writes "Information from the collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing has been leaked to WikiLeaks, revealing billions in insider loans, and the bank has been working day and night to censor the information contained in the document. Last night at 6:55pm GMT, they served an injunction against the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, five minutes before the 7pm news was due to be aired. The TV station just displayed the WikiLeaks URL instead. They've also injuncted Iceland's national radio, banning all discussion about the contents of the document, and they are actively trying to censor the rest of the Icelandic media along with WikiLeaks."

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  1. National security? Nah, that's not possible by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When the government starts censoring things, I find that it is usually because of national security issues more than anything else.

    Look at your government and seriously think about how on the ball they are about anything.

    You'll find that the only thing they are ever on the ball about is national security. That's it (unless you're an unfortunate American in which case that's not even something you can believe in). So when the government starts freaking out and censoring things left and right, you can bet that there's something important contained in the leaked files.

    Now, it's up to you to keep what you know safe and secret from Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

    1. Re:National security? Nah, that's not possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "according to a blog" is never, ever a proper source.

      never

      ever

  2. Ireland? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't that the country that just recently created anti-blasphemy laws?

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    1. Re:Ireland? by krilli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes, that was probably Ireland.

      On another note, the news story you can see above is about ICELAND.

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    2. Re:Ireland? by PeterBrett · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      >>>"Iceland" == "Ireland"
      False

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  4. Mod parent up by anwaya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The AC parent of this post deserves better than a 0.