[WikiEN-l] The terrorists have won

[stevertigo]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Gwern Branwen<gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hm. So if the terrorists do not make any demands about silence, it is
> our ethical duty to censor ourselves, as many wiser heads than mine
> have expounded about at length in many forums such as WikiEN-l.
>
> But if they do make demands about silence, it is our ethical duty
> to... censor ourselves?

Again, the issue is presuming that it matters at all what clever
censorship tactics
anyone in the media does, and that these make all the difference.
Clever ain't wise.
The beautifully obtuse thing about this is that journalism, mass
media, and the Fourth
Estate are all concepts founded on illumination, enlightenment, and
information.
'Sunlight is the best disinfectant,' as someone said. Turning the
lights out for certain
cases somehow means something equivalent to turning them on?

-Stevertigo