“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar” - Henry David Thoreau
As Tim Blair offers his tuppence worth on this topic:
In his findings against Bolt, Bromberg took issue with words Bolt didn’t actually use: “It is language which invites the readers not only to read the lines, but to read between the lines.” This is remarkable. Reading between the lines of Bromberg’s ruling, Bolt seems to have been condemned for a form of thought crime. We’ve now witnessed a legal procedure about race involving racial differences nobody could see and words nobody could read.
Posted in: Australia, Freedom, Journalism, Mainstream Media, censorship.
Free speech is about the state dictating what is or is not acceptable, it is not about free people freely expressing contempt for contemptible behaviour.
Refusal to finance a platform for thugs to spew their venomous bile does not constitute censorship.
Financing a platform constitutes support.
paraphrased from Lord Vetinari
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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I think my point here would be that this is what puritanism has always been striving towards, a society governed by an ulama and policed by a mutaween. Across the Anglosphere, we are, well I was going to say, “getting there” or “nearly there”, but I think we may as well admit that we have already arrived.