Over at Liberty Central, coinciding with the imminent launch of Index on Censorship‘s new issue on obscenity, Mediawatch’s John Beyer and Index on Censorship regular Julian Petley are debating Britain’s obscenity laws. Are they obscure? Are they absurd? Are they in any way justified?
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Time to scrap obscenity laws?
Over at Liberty Central, coinciding with the imminent launch of Index on Censorship‘s new issue on obscenity, Mediawatch’s John Beyer and Index on Censorship regular Julian Petley are debating Britain’s obscenity laws. Are they obscure? Are they absurd? Are they in any way justified? Find out what John and Julian have to say here
05 Mar 09
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