Professors blogg: Opinion censorship in Swedish media. Link-search engine NOT the cause

 

Rixstep article “Guardian Censoring Information in Assange Case” reports on censorship exercised in The Guardian against links to Professors blogg. Wikileaks Central had reported likewise (see “Possible gag order on the Guardian re Assange case?).

Update. As to the Swedish case, preliminary conclusions contained in the article here below and in the version in Second-Opinion on the responsibilities of the opinion-censorship in the Swedish media apparatus were based in written information provided to us by Twingly. Twingly was specifically informed at the moment of our consultation that I was preparing an article in the issue to be published abroad. After my report was published in the Swedish Second-Opinion Twingly changed their version in 180 degrees and now affirms instead that it was not their clients, the  Swedish press, that exercised censorship to the Assange-articles in Professors blogg. First they say Twingly was not the responsible and implied the newspapers moderators. Now they say the newspapers were not at all the responsible. What has happened after our publication and why Källström is giving this totally new version only those actors know.

The newspapers from their part gave inconclusive versions. Svenska dagbladet informed per email that the problem was of “technical” nature and “beyond their control”, implying that it was caused by an external actor. Expressen (web-redaktionen) informed over the telephone that the responsibility of whether blogs appeared linked to their articles is clearly Twingly’s. But the journalist giving this information when I talked to Expressen's web-redaktionen 17 March, 17:28 (call loged from Italy), in spite of giving her name did not wish to be quoted.  Dagens Nyheter for their part plainly refused to comment. Twingly denied any wrongdoing.

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Professors blogg: Opinion censorship in Swedish media. Link-search engine NOT the cause

Shrewsbury Marches Against Cutbacks.

1000 people today marched through Shrewsbury against a massive attack on public services and jobs by the government and the Tory run administration in Shropshire. It was an extraordinary show of strength by local trade unions who were joined by young and old activists as they marched from the shire hall to the town square, clapped along the way by fellow townspeople

Mike Edwards from Shropshire trades council clearly was in awe of the turn out leading huge chants of ‘they say cutback we say fight back.’

Shropshire Council had voted earlier in the week to cut almost £40m from the budget over the next four years. Up to nine schools could be shut along with other public services with inevitable job losses

Roger McKenzie, assistant general secretary of Unison, said the event was “magnificent” and urged the crowd to go away and organise resistance.

Paul Brandon Chair of Right to Work said it was now all about the TUC demo on the 26th March and said we need to throw everything at this lot, to bring the government down with strikes, direct action and occupations. Reminding the crowd it’s a bankers crisis and not ours.