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5. People for the American Way
When you get to this website, scroll down the page a little bit and click on "Right Wing Watch". Take a quick look around, then click on "Right Wing Organizations". See if you recognize any of the groups listed there.

4. The Federal Communications Commission
"The Fairness Doctrine is a former policy of the United States's Federal Communications Commission. It required broadcast licensees to present controversial issues of public importance, and to present such issues in an honest, equal and balanced manner...Critics of the Fairness Doctrine believed that it was primarily used to intimidate and silence political opposition."
- Wikipedia

"A Congressman has come forth with a bill to bring back the Fairness Doctrine in order to protect, he says, “diversity of views.” He is Maurice Hinchey of New York, and his bill is called the Media Ownership Reform Act of 2005. In addition to “preventing excessive concentration of ownership of the nation’s media outlets,” it includes the restoration of “fairness in broadcasting…to foster and promote localism, diversity, and competition in the media.”
- Nat Hentoff (full article here)

3. Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission
"Communications in the Public Interest" is their motto. Click on "Canadian Content" at the top of the site page, then click "What is Canadian Content?" under the paragraph beneath the giant leaf.
Pay close attention to the wording used. Are we starting to see a pattern here?

2. The European Union
"On every policy involving mass surveillance of its citizens, the EU is prepared to go well beyond what the U.S. Government finds acceptable and palatable, and violate the privacy of citizens...For instance, today the European Parliament is being forced by the Council of the European Union to approve a measure on communications data retention. This 'directive' requires every EU country to force telephone companies, internet service providers and other providers of communications services to monitor the logs of the communications made by their clients, no matter if they are being investigated or not."
- Privacy International, December 14, 2005

"The European Parliament voted today to adopt [the Data Retention Directive]...of concern is the broad discretion that is left to EU member states. For example, data may be accessed for the purposes of combatting serious crime and terrorism, but no concrete definition of these concepts has been provided, allowing member states to transpose their own definitions on the provisions of the Directive."
- Privacy international, December 15, 2005

1. North Korea
Holy crap, just look at this website!

Follow my thinking here: in June of 1949, George Orwell's dystopian novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was first published. Less than 12 months later, Kim Il Sung's Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel to make war on South Korea in an effort to spread his newly crystalized vision of a Big Brother government across all of Korea.

You connect the dots.

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