the Sugar Conspiracy

Thursday, December 09, 2004

Surpressing dissent, from other countries

In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval.

The restriction, condemned by critics as a violation of the First Amendment, means that books and other works banned by some totalitarian regimes cannot be published freely in the United States.

Let me get this straight: writers who are likely speaking out against totalitarian regimes and possibly advocating freedom or other "American" ideals are now banned from being published in the United States, the supposed land of freedom. These people are nuts. How much longer before we just start burning books? Oops, too late.

(via Bob.)

posted by chris at 10:37 AM
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