* Posts by robin radford

1 publicly visible post • joined 7 Apr 2007

Thai King video wag pulls YouTube clip

robin radford

Censorship

The incident of someone defaming Thailand's king is truly unfortunate. I know the Thais who saw the video were hurt by the insult and many took it personally, for them I am sorry. But, censorship is a form of repression and as such limits information flow, both bad and good. In a free society we are left to govern our own level of censorship. We deem what is good or bad for us, we censor what we and our children are exposed to. Why then would we ask, no demand, that a commercial enterprise censor information for us? If we allow that to happen we will be surrendering part of our freedom to Google. Don't like Google don't use them, don't like youtube don't visit, but don't shoot the messenger just because yoiu don't like the message.