Thanks. No I haven’t experience any censorship because I haven’t written anything that would be censored. Actually I was referring to censorship by the state.

Perhaps, it would be fair to say that censorship is Sri Lanka is selective in terms of content, language, type of media, and timing. I think the government approach is very subtle and difficult to fit it into any clear pattern. But it does happen through formal and informal means. Even in the democracies that boast about freedom of press news get censored in many different ways that are difficult to pin down. Noam Chomsky has written plenty of articles regarding censorship in the US.

Then there is also self censorship that happen due to ideological, institutional and technological perspectives of the journalists, journalist and media companies.
Cheers
Jude

“Are you using diversity of opinion in the GV as evidence of the absence of censorship?”

Yes. I agree that it’s not necessarily proof, but I think the consistent diversity of opinion is indicative of at least a lower incidence of censorship. It’s not isolated to one or two token concessions, as in the Colin Powell/Condi Rice example you took. In addition, I consider my own views on certain issues to be markedly divergent from the views expressed by the editors, but nevertheless I have not experienced censorship of any kind.

I can’t comment on the criteria for having an article published on GV and whether there’s a slant there as I’ve never tried to publish one, but I haven’t so far personally experienced any censorship of comment.

Has your experience been different?

Are you using diversity of opinion in the GV as evidence of the absence of censorship? I know some Americans used the Colin Powel and Condi Rice as evidence of multiculturalism and absence of racism in the US. For some that was implied in the comments by the Right Wing disgusted with appointments of Powel and Rice.

Sorry if I misunderstood you. Just looking for clarification.

Peace

I just wanted to say that in a sarcastic vein, before someone else says it with serious intent!

But getting onto a serious and genuine note: from me: congrats GV and Sanjana; it’s a very well deserved award. Especially as Som Patidar said: “at a time, when Sri Lanka needs it most”

And to Sanjana, who bears most of the burden: Thanks for bringing us together and keeping it going!