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Re:Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material o... by peteretep on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:25AM (#15407477) 

    > what of movies that they don't like,
    > will those be banned?
"Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" -- Mervyn Griffith-Jones at the obscenity trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Re:Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material o... by pjc50 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:34AM (#15407527)
.. which was the end of the old censorship regime and the point at which book, theatre and news censorship collapsed. In 1959.
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Re:Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material o... by peteretep on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:57AM (#15407637)
Yes, that's where it derives its relevance from.
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