Man in a Shed: The anti-free speech EU puts its jackboot down

Friday, September 26, 2008

The anti-free speech EU puts its jackboot down

The EU has a thing about blogs, or rather sources of information it doesn't control or isn't able to bribe. The new solution is intimidation, hence UKIPs press officer in the European Parliament is not allowed to blog.

What are they so scared of ?

If you outraged by this then post a blog linking to Mr Towler's post, so it gets the highest google ranking possible.

A summary of the issue is at the EU Referendum blog ( because who knows how long it will be before the jackboots are at Mr Towler's door again demanding the end of free speech and the eleimiation of his blog archives ).

1 comment:

Letters From A Tory said...: They may have won the battle but they haven't won the war on freedom of speech.; 9:44 am

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