re: #81 Obdicut

No, self-censorship is not the same thing as not having free speech. Comparing government oppression of speech to a cable network not carrying a particular channel or show or whatever is deeply stupid. Some idiots were saying the same thing about people trying to get Rush Limbaugh off the air after his ‘slut’ comments.

You make a perfectly good point that they carry Russia Today, and that that shows that they’re not dropping this because it’s a government-owned organization. I completely agree it’s because of the Muslim association.

Regarding how self censorship works:

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/beware-self-censorship-says-du-preez-1.65807#.UOXg2-2WdWg

Beware self-censorship, says Du Preez

May 3 2001 at 09:40pm

By Melanie Gosling

In the apartheid era the media were muzzled by censorship laws. In the democratic South Africa the threat to press freedom is self-censorship by journalists who feared being labelled unpatriotic or racist.