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handofdave
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Re: opinions on last night's question time
Oct 25, 2009, 11:11
ratcni01 wrote:
This is the reason I think trumps all others in terms of whether the BNP should have been invited onto QT. If a rise in attacks can be correlated with their appearance then this justifies them not being invited on again indeed invited to get any air time at all. I hope the BBC will be watching the statistics on this, or someone (some organisation) with credibility.


I'd expect the BNP rank and file would be taking orders to chill out while they're getting all this press.

My concern is that, if the criteria for censorship is how the public reacts to someone being on TV, do you apply that to everyone? What if you had someone who is anti-BNP on the air and it correlated with a rise in attacks? Do you ban them too?

I'm not just talking about abstract concepts of free speech, here... if legal precedents can be set against the BNP that can end up coming back around and sabotaging progressives too, it might be wise to beware the impulse to censure.
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