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Jezston
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I am a little bit troubled by all this, and where things are going.
I first became aware of it earlier, I think on The Guardian website, where they basically said the article has been deleted because it expressed anti-semitic views.
Whilst I abhor anti-semitism, and just about all other sorts of prejudice, I'd like to make my own fucking mind up. I would like there to be an open and rational exchange of ideas and views, however horrid some of those views may be.
I believe with coming of the 'information age' ironically ideas are much more carefully monitored than they used to be - there seems to me to be less, not more, freedom of thought. Recent cases where both Germain Greer and Richard Dawkins have been 'no platformed' really, really worry me.
I am not saying that Kevin Myers is anything but a total cunt - just that it is better that he be engaged in some way, rather than deleted. The Bruce Springsteen thing is just fucking weird.