The correct title for this thread is Court ruling poses threat to online free expression as I don't think it would have fit in the subject title:
So once again, we've got internet freedom of access and speech being walked all over. No one is really safe when you live in countries that have surveillance activities happening on their citizens. Which is a signal of the level of paranoia of that particular government or regime.
Police-state anyone??
That portends fear of that regime via criticisms of others against it.Reporters Without Borders is concerned about a ruling by Jordan’s highest appeal court, published on 13 January, that news websites and electronic media are subject to the country’s press and publications law. Media and communications minister Nabil Al-Sharif told the Jordan Times that the court’s decision was reached independently and should therefore be applied
True democracy is transparent.
It doesn't have secret parallel governments such as is the case with Bulgaria and other countries that I have made mention of in other news threads that is published by Wikileaks.org and others too.
True and democratic government is also open to critique by it's citizens for the purpose of improving how a country is ruled and governed by it's government.
Government sponsored propaganda is what I believe that is supposed to mean.The ruling poses a real threat to online free expression in Jordan, where the traditional media usually toe the government line......
Publish what the government want's it's citizens to read and hear. Not information that it feels isn't the business of it's people.
Kind of like in North Korea. If that country isn't run by a paranoid person, then I don't know who is.
I suppose that the type of information that your exposed to most obviously has to do with where you live.
If you live in places like China, your constantly being told how much of a friend North Korea is.
You never hear of information on how people are taken away in the North Korean Gulags when trying to escape that repressive regime as equally as you never hear how desperate that country is for food as I have seen documentaries on how children, ..yes children try to find food of, off the muddy ground. How the Great Leader is presented as a god-like figure that suggests him to have been born of some mystical beginning or something.
If you live in places like South and North America or Europe, you know enough of places like that and the lies that are constantly being presented. You've seen the documentaries and footage of desperately hungry people who, because that government is so obsessed with security and image, neglects to feeding it's people.
If you live in places like the Middle East like in Saudi Arabia, your constantly under surveillance.
and that isn't a good thing. People have the right to information.......With the authorities determined to rein in online news and information, there is a danger that Internet users will follow the example set by print media journalists and censor themselves out of fear of sanctions
It's a privalage in many countries. We in the West take it actually for granted.
We never think about it.
We take it for granted, while for others it's a privalage administered only through that particular country's censorship offices.
It should be a right.
Regardless of what the issue involved covers, it's still corruption. As equally as it is censorship as you'll see.The court’s ruling comes just days after the media and communications minister brought a defamation suit against Abdul Hadi Raji Al-Majali, the editor of the Ejjbed.com website, over a series of articles about alleged illicit enrichment by members of his family and a lack of transparency in the way his elder brother’s companies hired employees.
censorship of the media via court actions. What a neat way to do government business.The Ejjbed.com articles also accused the minister of not having the degrees mentioned in his curriculum vitae.......“It is incredible that the media and communications minister is suing a journalist in a country that claims to be democratic,”....
Control the media and everything is in your hands exactly the way you'd like it.......“This case is disturbing. In two weeks the Union of Journalists is going to decide whether or not to expel me and everyone knows that the union takes its orders from the government.”
Like I say. Information is a privilage. But it should be a right.
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i mean, you do have proof for your official (as a licensed journalist) claims/accusations or were they within the law...tricky, isn't it?
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