Morocco: media repression or battling racism?

Here's a story of an Arab government clamping down on the media with an unusual twist.  Al-Jazeera reports that the Moroccan government confiscated the press run of a local newspaper because it ran a  "racist" and "inflammatory" article about African immigrants "invading northern Morocco."  According to the story, the article aroused angry protests among local human rights groups and intellectuals, who presumably supported the government's move against the paper.

So... "bad" story of government repression of a free media, or "good" story of a government policing the lines of acceptable discourse to prevent racist and inflammatory speech?   And is the "good" story really all that "good"?  You make the call... 

Comments

[The Lounsbury]

Hard to make without knowing more. What paper was it?

Regardless, given the subject matter and what is normally written on African transiters, without further information I would have to suspect that article in question must have been quite outre.