War and censorship
The reason given for censorship in war times, that you cannot inform your enemy of your actions, doesn't evaporate into thin air in peace times, it's just as relevant as in war times, i.e. censorship in any time is a cover for hostile action.
But then, do you think you can live in peace while there is massive censorship, i.e. massive cover for hostile action?
Is the cover not going to be exploited? And how long will the situation remain peaceful, when massive hostile action occurs?
Last year, while hurricane Dorian pummelled the Bahamas, I got fed up by the constant reports of the threat it posed to Florida, so I looked for cyclone activity in other parts of the world and found cyclone Hiika. I followed its landfall live on Windy. The Times of Oman reported of course. But globally it wasn't much of a story. This year though stories of biblical swarms of locusts keep percolating through the global attention filter. Cyclone => heavy rain => prosperous locusts, anyone? And that is pretty much the nature of all censorship: to keep you in the dark until the problem for you has matured.
I don't know how big of a problem the locusts are, I do know however that a charity effort would have been more effective, had it begun in September, 2019.
According to the biographic film on him, Gandhi said that the press has an important role to play in organising people. It really has. It has to be their eyes and ears so that whatsoever concerns them comes to their attention. Active people, that is. People, who are determined and able to do something about problems.
The ass-backwardsness of journalists these days, trying to prevent action from the people and instead trying to coax them into going along with a preordained course, to the point that they will censure history, if only for a time, is far from harmless. It is potentially very dangerous. It all depends on what can be sold to them, in the sense of being better left unreported, whether for financial reasons or in the course of a higher cause.
In any case, it's evident that the people will need to reestablish a press in the near future that serves them.
But then, do you think you can live in peace while there is massive censorship, i.e. massive cover for hostile action?
Is the cover not going to be exploited? And how long will the situation remain peaceful, when massive hostile action occurs?
Last year, while hurricane Dorian pummelled the Bahamas, I got fed up by the constant reports of the threat it posed to Florida, so I looked for cyclone activity in other parts of the world and found cyclone Hiika. I followed its landfall live on Windy. The Times of Oman reported of course. But globally it wasn't much of a story. This year though stories of biblical swarms of locusts keep percolating through the global attention filter. Cyclone => heavy rain => prosperous locusts, anyone? And that is pretty much the nature of all censorship: to keep you in the dark until the problem for you has matured.
I don't know how big of a problem the locusts are, I do know however that a charity effort would have been more effective, had it begun in September, 2019.
According to the biographic film on him, Gandhi said that the press has an important role to play in organising people. It really has. It has to be their eyes and ears so that whatsoever concerns them comes to their attention. Active people, that is. People, who are determined and able to do something about problems.
The ass-backwardsness of journalists these days, trying to prevent action from the people and instead trying to coax them into going along with a preordained course, to the point that they will censure history, if only for a time, is far from harmless. It is potentially very dangerous. It all depends on what can be sold to them, in the sense of being better left unreported, whether for financial reasons or in the course of a higher cause.
In any case, it's evident that the people will need to reestablish a press in the near future that serves them.
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