On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Durova<nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gwern: see the Ken Hechtman example above. In 2001 a Canadian journalist > who was held by the Taliban did have his life endangered by news coverage. > > -Durova >
Yes, I read it. I don't think it comes *anywhere* near proving your sweeping proposition that this sort of censorship is justified. They claimed they were going to execute him and were doing mock executions before any news broke; after the news broke, they... went on doing naughty things. Yeah. Not a very good example. Sure, he may have 'thought' he had convinced them to let him go, but that conviction is worth about as far as one can throw it; I remember hearing that the Vietnamese and Iranian hostage takers liked to taunt their prisoners in a similar manner. -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
