Editing Sweden Democrats (section)

=== Media boycotts ===
The Sweden Democrats have complained about difficulties buying advertising space before elections due to the media banning the party from advertising and have accused media outlets of political bias and trying to censor or limit the party's campaign messages during elections.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bhhrg.org/CountryReport.asp?ChapterID=239&CountryID=51&ReportID=83|title=Swedish General Election 2002 : media coverage|publisher=[[British Helsinki Human Rights Group]]|access-date=1 August 2006|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927212926/http://www.bhhrg.org/CountryReport.asp?ChapterID=239&CountryID=51&ReportID=83|archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref> This has been criticised by free speech organisations in Sweden and abroad.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2009/09/locking-out-the-sweden-democrats/|title=Locking Out the Sweden Democrats|publisher=International Free Press Society (IFPS)|date=18 September 2009|access-date=8 November 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803193403/http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2009/09/locking-out-the-sweden-democrats/|archive-date=3 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 16 June 2006, ''[[Dagens Nyheter]]'' and ''[[Svenska Dagbladet]]'' decided to stop their boycott. ''[[Expressen]]'', however, still{{when|date=January 2021}} retains a ban on Sweden Democrat advertising.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/fritt-fram-for-sverigedemokraterna-att-annonsera/ |title=Fritt fram för Sverigedemokraterna att annonsera |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter |date=16 June 2006 |access-date=1 August 2006 |language=sv |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714092722/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/fritt-fram-for-sverigedemokraterna-att-annonsera-1.654627 |archive-date=14 July 2011 }}</ref> During the [[2010 Swedish general election]], broadcaster [[TV4 (Swedish TV channel)|TV4]] refused to air a Sweden Democrats campaign video which depicted a Swedish pensioner being outrun by [[burqa|burka]]-clad women with [[Baby transport|prams]].<ref name=aljazeera>{{Cite news |title=Far-right tests Swedish tolerance |first=Cajsa |last=Wikstrom |newspaper=[[Al Jazeera English]] |date=19 September 2010 |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2010/09/201091691137186652.html |access-date=20 September 2010 |archive-date=17 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317113811/http://english.aljazeera.net//indepth/2010/09/201091691137186652.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/XkRRdth8AHc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100905194156/http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=XkRRdth8AHc Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|last=((SDReklam2010))|title=Sverigedemokraternas valfilm 2010|date=26 August 2010|url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XkRRdth8AHc|access-date=22 October 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> TV4's decision was criticized by both free speech advocates and politicians from Denmark, including by [[Danish People's Party]] leader [[Pia Kjærsgaard]], [[Venstre (Denmark)|Venstre]] and the [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Conservative People's Party]] (the latter of whom reacted to TV4's decision to ban the video by calling for international election observers to be sent to Sweden), and by members of the Norwegian [[Progress Party (Norway)|Progress Party]] who called the decision a "violation of democratic rules". The SD subsequently uploaded the video to [[YouTube]] where it was viewed over a million times.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/norsk-politikk/artikkel.php?artid=10026922|work=[[Verdens Gang]] (NTB)|title=Frp: – Svensk brudd på demokratiske spilleregler|date=31 August 2010|access-date=1 November 2010|language=no|archive-date=5 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100905142841/http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/norsk-politikk/artikkel.php?artid=10026922|url-status=live}}</ref> Swedish political journalist Hanne Kjöller argued that attempts to censor the SD in 2010 by the media and left-wing protest groups ultimately backfired and ended up [[Streisand effect|emboldening their support by giving them more publicity]].<ref>[https://www.dn.se/ledare/signerat/sverigedemokraterna-blommogram-till-extremvanstern/ "Sverigedemokraterna: Blommogram till extremvänstern"]  ''Dagens Nyheter'' 18 September 2010</ref><ref name=aft>{{cite news|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article3795398.ece|work=[[Aftenposten]]|title=Skandinavisk "krig" før valget|first=Jon Robin|last=Halle|date=3 September 2010|access-date=1 November 2010|language=no|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906144500/http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article3795398.ece|archive-date=6 September 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,715107,00.html Danish Politicians Call for Election Observers in Sweden] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212063619/http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,715107,00.html |date=12 December 2010 }} ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' 1 September 2010</ref>