Tuesday 28 July 2020

Free speech in the balance?

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Update (29 July): It’s here now.
The above is in today’s print edition of the South China Morning Post.  It is not in the online version.  Could this be a bit of self-censorship? After all, Beijing can easily get the inline version. Whereas the print version just goes to old dodderers like me, and we don’t need to worry about them too much, do we? Let them play around in their sand pit and believe free speech remains.
I hope I’m wrong and it’s just an oversight.
The article is by Henry Litton, retired court of Final Appeal judge, who has been a staunch proponent of focusing on keeping OCTS going past 2047. Had we focussed on that, we wouldn’t be dealing with a harsh NSL as we are now.
We brought this on ourselves, lads.