For readers in Ontario, Steve Paikin has a panel discussion tonight on the topic of Islamic Extremism Online. For readers not in TVO’s catchment area, the show should appear on their website; you should look for it here later tonight.
Paikin has hosted interesting debates before and interviewed Ezra Levant way back in January, before a lot of the more traditional media commentators had written word one on the Human Rights Commissions. A few weeks ago he interviewed MP Keith Martin and moderated an interesting debate about the issue of censorship featuring Jonathon Kay of the National Post.
Tonight’s debate might be worth a look simply because the issue of ‘extremism online’ might well result in some talk around censorship of the Internet. If I guessed wrong, then I’ll update this post so that readers can decide whether or not to look at the video tomorrow. I think it’ll be an interesting show no matter what, I have to admire TVO and Paikin for not ducking the tough topics. In fact, Steve Paikin reminds me a bit of the UK’s Jeremy Paxman - a comparison for which he may not thank me, but its meant as a compliment.