Defining censorship in Gaddafi’s Libya

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/may/24/defining-censorship-gaddafi-libya

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All this fuss over the possible banning of TV programmes that could encourage terrorism uses the term “censorship” too widely (Report, 23 May). When I was seconded by the BBC to help set up Libyan television in 1969, I had a discussion after Gaddafi’s revolution with the Libyan head of programmes about the banning of one of my programmes. “Before the revolution, you complained about censorship,” I said to him, “but you are doing the same thing.” “No,” he said. “Censorship is bad people cutting out good things, but this is good people cutting out bad things.” I had no answer.Karl SabbaghNewbold on Stour, Warwickshire

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