Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Ban them dangerous pagey thingys and get back to the speeches

Hey wait a sec...I thought this was supposed to be a free country?

Groups Accuse U.S. of Imposing Book Ban

NEW YORK - A group of organizations representing publishers and authors sued the federal government Monday, saying it is blocking the works of authors in countries such as Cuba, Iran and Sudan from reaching the United States.

In the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the groups asked a federal judge to remove government restrictions that allegedly block the free exchange of information and ideas. Otherwise, it said, "Americans who want information from Cuba, Iran and Sudan are limited to reading what has already been written in those countries."

The lawsuit noted that authors in those countries already work under government restrictions and blamed the Treasury Department (news - web sites)'s Office of Foreign Assets Control for, in effect, extending "the force of foreign censorship to the United States."

I wonder if that includes bloggers.

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