Thursday, 8 September 2011

Free speech is in retreat throughout the West

There's a sizzling piece by Mark Steyn in the current issue of National Review, which reveals quite how far democracies have gone in restricting free speech.
Citing, among many, the example of a musician on the Isle of Wight who was charged with racism after performing Kung Fu Fighting in the hearing of a Chinese couple, he makes the point that it is no longer possible to infer the legal status of words from the words themselves:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100103466/free-speech-is-in-retreat-throughout-the-west/

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