Quote of the day 12th January 2018

"To many who may not even read the Mail but who oppose the kind of one-sided censorship that now gets it banned from trains, the boycott represents a bullying juggernaut hurtling towards them and their belief in the freedom of expression."

"Today Virgin, tomorrow . . . who else? "

"Going down this route — using the bludgeon rather than reasoned argument — simply answers intolerance with more intolerance. To attempt to shut down a world view, however much it may offend you, is far worse than allowing that world view to be heard. And doing so merely justifies attempts to shut down the opinions of those who claim to be liberals."

"You can be the bold, banning anti-racist one moment, only to find that you’re someone else’s to-be-banned transphobe the next. When the censors come knocking it’s never just for your enemies. That’s why the only thing that we can all hang on to is the right to be heard whatever we think of the other side’s opinions."

(David Aaronovitch, extracts from Times article "Beware the slippery slope of censorship")

Comments

Jim said…
never understood the point of it myself. You dont want to read the daily mail, simple, don't buy it.

I used to say the same thing with points of view when it was on tv. people would be saying things like "I was forced to sit though an hour of......", well actually you were not, you could have changed the channel, or even turned the tv off.

Now you could make a very reasonable case that you were forced to pay for the garbage on BBC when all you want to watch on TV was the football on ITV, so the BBC licence fee should end and the BBC should have to compete. That would be a fair agument, but an all out ban just because you dont like it,
well that's not.
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