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

[Simon Wilcox]

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:
>>
>>> Free Speech and all.
>> There is no right of free speech in this country.
>>
> 
> 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.
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