Goddamn weirdo cowards. There's no reason to remove cut & dry, factual information. It's not like they posted the letter & had annotations, "We love this guy!! Yay!! Hooray, 9/11!" They were like this is from Osama, to America, here it is. There's nothing for them to be ashamed of; it's stupid that they are.
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Meh, I would bet that the average Muslim or American person would probably not be too bothered
ALink to the letter if you want to read it.
I don't know if it's an ad blocker thing, but the link takes you to a page with the title and no content.
It reads like a typical American baptist priest. Sprinkled with far right jew hating ideology "da jooos control this and that." But I understand his grievances and why he blames the American people for government decisions.
I mean this could be a long boomer rant on Facebook but replace america with China.
Despite the fact that bin Laden is a stupid terrorist that should be removed, I don't believe in any form of censorship and don't see why it cannot be published.
Though some people can be stupid enough to start supporting terrorism afterwards...
Though some people can be stupid enough to start supporting terrorism afterwards…
I used to think the same thing. Then my company got United Healthcare Insurance. Now I'm questioning. Would I have been angry if Osama had attacked their board of directors? I'm not so sure.
Evil conveniently never harms other evil things.
I swear not a single (primary) country leader died during covid. Even fat kim jong-un somehow made it out alive. Granted it wasn't a particularly lethal virus, but man it would have been satisfying to see some dictators kick the bucket.
A virus cannot be evil, a virus is just a virus. But, I get your sentiment.
How many primary country leaders are there?
Here's a list of notable people, mostly politicians, that died of covid. It's quite long.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_due_to_COVID-19
I don't believe in any form of censorship
You don't believe CSAM should be reported and removed from websites?
Cuz thats censorship as well.
What I meant is censorship in terms of opinions on topics. We should be presented with both sides imo
I should have written it in a clearer manner
There is no "both sides", there is an infinite amount of opinions and perspectives on one thing: reality. Not all of those opinions are worth engaging with or deserve a platform.
Though in this case with the letter it's historically significant and I find their reasoning kind of pathetic, so I agree with you here.
This reminds me of those hitler quotes that people were duped into agreeing with and then being told it was said by hitler.
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Kanye... or Hitler?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0RMdwA8GWB8&pp=ygUMaGl0bGVyIGthbnll
This reminds me of something I did around the time of 9/11.
I had read an interview with Bin Laden on the CNN website and could not find it there the next day. Whoever or however it happens, I'm pretty sure our government censored anything that might be remotely sympathetic to the "bad guys".
I'm glad this is more obvious now with everything being on the www. But this shows that the censorship has not stopped.
Why does the media censor anything that's critical of Israel?
Why doesn't Wikipedia have it?
Web archive link... if you're curious
Yeah I went to check and Wikipedia is linking the wayback machine's version of the guardian article. Fair enough.