The banned articles would then be edited to appease the watchdog.
And even Chinese journalists, when their reports of corruption are killed by local censors, have sometimes posted their banned articles on the Web, insuring national exposure and public pressure for answers.
In its published guidelines, the Eco Team bans articles about China's relationship with Taiwan, Tibet, Falun Gong and the Tiananmen Square protests.
But even some other European countries are cool to the idea, fearing that it will lead to trading chaos by allowing a country to ban articles on the flimsiest of threats.
The larger question is whether a society should ban articles of clothing that impede accurate identification in the interest of public safety?
Activity of this nature, for example, the creation of human embryos for research, is prohibited by Article 18 of the Biomedicine Convention, as well as reproductive cloning being banned in Article 1, paragraph 1 of the PCHB.
Another charge against Motorola and his battalion is of the torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, banned under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Former CIA director George Tenet later testified that, in the years before 9/11, the CIA shipped some 70 individuals to foreign countries without formal extradition -- a process dubbed "extraordinary rendition" that had been explicitly banned under Article 3 of the U.N. Convention.
In the early 1990's, Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana noted, no politician would have dared touch the law banning homosexuality, Article 200.
