Censorship in the Netherlands
18th August 2010
The Dutch Royal Library is currently making available online all newspapers from the Second World War, which includes Nazi propaganda. Now the Dutch department of Justice has advised the library not to make digital versions of these publications, because it is possible that the Public Prosecutor might accuse the Royal Library of distributing publications that incite hatred.
This is too absurd for words. Government bureaucrats are like dim-witted robots. Anything that fits their target parameters is attacked, whether it makes sense or not. Eventually we’ll wind up like the Nazis, with Goverment Agency A at war with Government Agency B, and the ordinary citizen trampled in the ensuing riot.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:40
Ironically, the Dutch government is loaded with “Good Germans” who are blindly obeying rules to protect the public from reading about real Germans during the Nazi occupation.
More ironically, they don’t GET the irony of that!