25 Nov
BNP leader, Nick Griffin, is to be allowed to speak at an Oxford Union debate on free speech. He will be joined by David Irving, a historian who was jailed in Austria for the thought-crime of saying that the Holocaust never happened.
It was looking a bit iffy for Griffin and Irving after protests against them […]
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24 Sep
Google search results are notable fickle with the top match changing a couple of times a day as a site starts to challenge the top match. A couple of times today the top result for “Schillings“, the lawyers at the centre of the Alisher Usmanov censorship battle, has turned up a couple of websites closed […]
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22 Sep
This appeared on the Channel 4 News website yesterday:Â
As Roman Abramovich gets his man at Chelsea, another Russian oligarch is making waves at Arsenal.
Alisher Usmanov, who this week increased his stake in Arsenal to 21 per cent, has taken exception to some of the fans’ websites repeating allegations first aired by the former ambassador to […]
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20 Sep
Veteran bloggers Tim Ireland, Bob Piper and Boris Johnson have had their sites pulled by their ISP’s for criticising Alisher Usmanov, the alleged dodgy geezer who is trying to buy Arsenal football club.
People who have been into the blogging scene for a while will know that things like this have happened a few times in the past but […]
Posted in Free Speech by: wonkotsane
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