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02 December 2012 @ 02:15 pm
My view on Leveson  
Do you oppose the regulation of the press by the state?
I have to say I do, I am not willing to sacrifice the liberty of the free press for Hugh Grant's vanity.
People hacked phones, there is a law against that, use it.
Police sold data, there is a law against that, use it.
News Corporation behaved badly, well let's use our media ownership laws to prevent one monopolist controlling too much media and influence.

What do you think? I value your opinion.
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unquietsoul5unquietsoul5 on December 2nd, 2012 10:44 pm (UTC)
I've been listening on the BBC radio and tv on the subject over the past few days and feel that the problem is not that they need new laws muzzling the press, but that they need to enforce the existing laws to prevent things like illegal wiretapping, phone hacking and the use of bribery from officials to buy information. Increasing the penalties for those crimes (especially by the police) would also be in order.

Getting them enforced is the problem, since the government would rather not admit that the Prime Minister and the Police are the problem and need to be prosecuted (as does the newspaper owners and management and staff that was directly involved in the process of those criminal violations).
tzundertzunder on December 3rd, 2012 10:02 am (UTC)
I have to say I tend to follow Ian Hislop on this, although I do realise that he also has an agenda.
My concern isn't the red tops and the celebrities they have a strange incestuous relationship with, my concern is Private Eye, New Statesman, even the Spectator.

http://is.gd/17t56f
(no subject) - jabedseo on December 9th, 2012 07:35 pm (UTC) (Expand)
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