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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by causality0 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:25PM (#31085326)
During the 2nd gulf war against Iraq, when the death toll began to rise, the US government forbade the reporting of military personnel coffins returning from the war zone, and news sources complied, including those against the war

This is wildly misleading. It was during the first gulf war, and it wasn't a ban on the reporting of returning coffins, it was a ban on photographers entering the grounds of Dover Air Force Base where the coffins were received.

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by squarefoot on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:36PM (#31089574)
By reporting I actually meant showing images, sorry my bad. However I'm pretty sure it was during the 2nd gulf war, not the 1st.
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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by causality0 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:06PM (#31089927)
By reporting I actually meant showing images

Inaccurate. If they obtained images by some other way, such as leaked from an airman who was there or taken with a long range lens there was nothing barring them from publishing them.

However I'm pretty sure it was during the 2nd gulf war, not the 1st.

Bro you're in front of a computer. If you doubted me it would take you ten seconds to verify that the photographer ban was imposed in 1991.

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