[Gllug] OT: Getting a libelous website taken down ...

[Simon Wilcox]

On 2/7/09 17:41, Harry Rickards wrote:
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> Simon Wilcox wrote:
>> On 2/7/09 16:58, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
>>> On Thu, July 2, 2009 17:48, Tethys wrote:
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>>>> Andy Millar writes:
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>>>>> Free Speech and all.
>>>> There is no right of free speech in this country.
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>>> I believe the EU human rights act to which the UK is a signatory
>>> guarantees freedom of speech.
>> Nope. Article 10 - Freedom of Expression - has some rather large caveats 
>> that allow governments to pass laws banning whatever they want to ban.
>>
>> It's nothing like as general as the US First Amendment.
>>
>> S.
> What about Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (part
> of the International Bill of Human Rights)?

It's an aspiration but has no legal force as far as I'm aware.

S.
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