Censorship's Apologists

Boingboing.net has an interesting example of moral equivalency in one of its posts:

Our friends at Fluctuat.net in France posted these exclusive photos from Havana. One image depicts the screen of flags that Fidel Castro had erected to obscure an electronic sign mounted on the Embassy of Switzerland building that houses the United States Interests Section. The sign streams quotes from the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and George W. Bush, news headlines, and other propaganda. The other image is just one of several anti-Bush billboards the government apparently erected as retaliation.

Note how the Castro dictatorship's erecting of a screen of flags to keep people from reading quotes, news items, items from the UN Declaration of Human Rights (all of which are termed "propaganda" by the blog poster) is gently portrayed and the Cuban dictatorship's erecting of an anti-Bush billboard is described as retaliation for the actions of the Americans.

In other words, the Americans are to blame for trying to bring information to people living in a police state! I suppose the Cuban people can't be trusted to view quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, or George W. Bush and make up their own minds.