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Aug. 5th, 2005
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Aug. 5th, 2005 07:01 pmRight, now that's sorted, I found this a little worrying:
"On the new anti-terror package, Mr Kennedy warned that plans to ban Muslim organisations, powers to close mosques and deport people who "visit particular bookshops and websites" risked "inflaming tensions and alienating people"."
Bit of a dangerous precedent isn't it? If not just plain dangerous in itself.
Most of the people who'd read this are safe, as there's nowhere to deport them to, but if you can deport people for reading the wrong website, you can do other things to them as well. What it amounts to is treating certain forms of opinion in a similar manner to more severe forms of pornography, effectively banning certain opinions. Most worrying of all is that it doesn't just make it an offence to express certain views, it makes it an offence to hear them.
"On the new anti-terror package, Mr Kennedy warned that plans to ban Muslim organisations, powers to close mosques and deport people who "visit particular bookshops and websites" risked "inflaming tensions and alienating people"."
Bit of a dangerous precedent isn't it? If not just plain dangerous in itself.
Most of the people who'd read this are safe, as there's nowhere to deport them to, but if you can deport people for reading the wrong website, you can do other things to them as well. What it amounts to is treating certain forms of opinion in a similar manner to more severe forms of pornography, effectively banning certain opinions. Most worrying of all is that it doesn't just make it an offence to express certain views, it makes it an offence to hear them.