Decent people do not campaign to ban newspapers and decent companies do not support calls to ban newspapers. I don't care if the paper is the Hitler Daily, The Stalin Weekly, or the ISIS monthly. You either have free thought and free speech or you don't.
Yes I would expect the security services to be keeping an eye on whoever reads certain publications, but unless you are in a dictatorship, the state should judge people's actions not their thoughts.
How many Americans are praying for a meteor to smash into the Trump political headquarters and render the election result null and void? Should any of them be arrested for wishing to kill he president-elect? No. Thought crime and pre-crime have no place in a civilised society.
If you cloned the people of Stop Funding Hate and created a rival organisation that was identical in every way except it targeted left wing newspapers, I would bet my lifetime supply of virtual tin foil hats that Stop Funding Hate would be the first in the queue to label their counterpart as an extremist organisation and for the first time ever they would be right.
Mark
Yes I would expect the security services to be keeping an eye on whoever reads certain publications, but unless you are in a dictatorship, the state should judge people's actions not their thoughts.
How many Americans are praying for a meteor to smash into the Trump political headquarters and render the election result null and void? Should any of them be arrested for wishing to kill he president-elect? No. Thought crime and pre-crime have no place in a civilised society.
If you cloned the people of Stop Funding Hate and created a rival organisation that was identical in every way except it targeted left wing newspapers, I would bet my lifetime supply of virtual tin foil hats that Stop Funding Hate would be the first in the queue to label their counterpart as an extremist organisation and for the first time ever they would be right.
Mark