Imagine there’s an FBI raid on, or congressional investigation into, whatever American news outlet attacks your political beliefs, and I think you’ll find yourself believing not that the government must be scared of the truth, but that these guys didn’t deserve their tongues.

It’s easy to stand outside a regime’s borders and say it can’t change your reality, and comforting to believe that the truth always comes out in the end, but I think reality is more harsh: “History is written by the winners.”

Apparently George RR Martin, from A Clash of Kings.

Edit: Apologies, should have been in response to the sibling, rather than the parent.

Wow I’ve not heard this one before? Who said this? I love it.

This does not apply to Holocaust revisionism, before anyone even suggests it.

Barbra Streisand faces an unclear tradeoff between publicizing the pictures of her home that already exist and encouraging the future taking of unwanted photographs of her home.

Modi has much, much, much more reason to fear that tolerating one scandal-raising documentary will lead to further scandal-raising documentaries, and much less reason to believe that ignoring the problem he already has will make it go away.

I don't think the Streisand Effect is a good analogy to try to draw here.