[governance] RE: Human rights and new gTLDs

[J.A.K.Cave at warwick.ac.uk]

One comment: Radio Mille Collines

[Note: this occurred in an environment where alternate points of view were
not suppressed]

Cheers,

Jonathan
PS if the reference is too cryptic, see e.g.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E7D61E31F930A35750C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print



On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Milton L Mueller wrote:

>
> As usual, very historically informed and interesting comments from Wolfgang. the emphasis W places on the independent judiciary is critical. At a recent speech here in Syracuse by US Supreme Court Justice Roberts, he read to us a constitutional provision guaranteeing freedom of expression and association. It was actually stronger in some ways than the US First Amendment. But it was from the 1970s-era Soviet Union. The main difference between USSR and USA was the independent judiciary.
>
> Wolfgang, I have a question about this:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >In Germany - where the nazi government used freedom
> >of the media, in particular the radio to spread
> >racist propoganda which paved the way for killing
> >six millions jews - it was very understandable that
> >the fathers of the post WWII German Constitution
> >agreed that nazi and racist propaganda has to be illegal
>
> Didn't the Nazis suppress a "free" media, they only allowed their own view to be broadcast?
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