Censorship goes local

[M Holmes]

Delta-Wave writes:

> <*>On 11/14/07, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:  <*>
> http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1780422007

> absolutely rediculous

> first of all, to employ a law like that, there needs to be one on the books
> about the offensive nature of any shirts promoting the carpenter....

There are two laws in this area which deny freedom of speech: the
blasphemy laws and the religious hatred laws.

Of course during the passage through Commons of the latter, we were
promised they wouldn't be used for trivialities. Didn't take very long
really...

FoFP