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mk · 5340 days ago · link · · parent · post: George Orwell's preface to the Ukrainian translation of Animal Farm
This was the proposed preface to Animal Farm: http://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/efp_go
I think the unofficial censorship we see today has as much to do with the sensibilities of sponsors as it does with public policy. However, on the public policy front, Saudi troops just recently helped suppress protests in Bahrain. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/20/bahrain-saudi-ar...) US news outlets are pretty quiet about this. The Saudi regime gets a pass by the US 'free press'.