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I think one of the things that's become very clear in this discussion is that a) Brits don't really get French humour (which can be laced with layers and layers of self-referencing irony) and b) the French have a better idea of why the freedom of speech is valuable than we do.
Both of which make me sad. Yeah, I'm a hack so I'm biased, but journalists should be free to say things that other people don't like - because if we're doing our jobs right, we're going to say a lot of things that someone somewhere won't like.
Having a particular class of thing that you can't say because 'culture' is one of the things that Charlie Hebdo was fighting against.