Silencing DISSENT: the International Edition.....

[nostamj]

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.

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In a further wrinkle, even if publishers obtain a license for a book -- something they are loathe to do -- they believe the regulations bar them from advertising it, forcing readers to find the dissident works on their own.

"It's absolutely against the First Amendment," fumed Arcade editor Richard Seaver, who hopes to publish an anthology of Iranian short stories. "We're not going to ask permission (to publish). That reeks of censorship."

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=19049

[annabanana]

1. government approval??

To publish works against our enemies?

another link in the chains to bind us.....

[nostamj]

2. dissent is destined

to be a relic of the days before GOD had his hand in American politics.

(shame this article is getting NO attention this morning)

[Karenina]

3. Actually Jeff, in the longrun

"How ya gonna keep 'em
down on the farm
after they've seen Par-reeee?"

These *a-holes are sooooo overreaching...

[nostamj]

4. i certainly hope you're right...

but, the TOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED crowd ('christian fascists') is frighteningly large and easily manipulated by the corporate fascists...

they are certainly going to continue to suppress it.