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Originally Posted by Geoffrey Collier
harryaldridge: You are wrong on almost every point. For a start, citizens of the UK (or U.S.) have never had an absolute right to the freedom of speech.
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That is not a virtue.
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This has been an error of monument proportions, incredible damage has been done
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Really? Have there been front page headlines in The Sun? Or The Mail?
Dr Gabb has published
a clarification of his intent. It is not one that I necessarily agree with, although his point about the law only coming into force in 1994 is correct.
However, I would say that communications developments since then have rendered the greater part of his argument obsolete.