Hi!
Sorry, I had not the intention to write a Wikipedia article that is balanced.
The only thing I tried to describe is some signals in the media that give me concerns.
But I am sorry to say, but your reaction is something what I would call naieve, and biased as well. You are free to think that way, as I think now otherwise.
At this point in time I do not think full censorship will be implemented in the US, but I found partially censorship (government) already very concerning. And it is not just the government but a large number of institutions that should deliver facts, but are no longer allowed to freely publish facts. This also includes universities.
Yes, a government is free to determine what policy it chooses, but that gives no reason to delete everything (read: all data) they do not like. There is a big difference between chosing something different and ordering to censor.
Also this will in the end lead to a situation that this will affect everyone via an indirect route.
Freedom of press already is troubled by attacking media.
I do not say it will happen, but I say we should consider what options we have if it would go wrong in any form we currently do not expect.
Romaine
Op vrijdag 27 januari 2017 heeft John phoenixoverride@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:
I must say the tone of the initial post to this is alarmingly biased and almost misleading. Yes the incoming president has placed a hold on releasing additional material. By no means does that imply that they will start censoring data that they release or in any way affect the private sector. Because the incoming president holds a opposite view as the predecessor it's not surprising that they would want to audit the releases to ensure that the data has a solid factual grounding. I've lost count of the number of research studies and papers that I have seen that when actually placed under a microscope don't hold up. However often the mainstream media takes these and runs with them.
The United States is based on freedom of the press, not freedom of the government. there is zero chance that the president will be able to censor the private sector. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe>