Lentern
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On what grounds? You've just said there shouldn't be laws restricting it, without them how can the family sue without grounds? If you think there should be a legal right to privacy which trumps that of free speech then the common law would very quickly prohibit the publishing of that sort of information even if the legislature wouldn't restrict it, it would all amount to the same thing.There are plenty of other media outlets that will condemn it. There are various other ways that the public can be alerted to such an atrocity. The family can take the media source to court for publishing private information against their will. This arguments going around in a circle a bit. I think you're assuming too much of the public.
Dr Sun Yat-sen? To an extent I agree with you about opinions but Bolt put forward falsified evidence to support his "opinion" and implicitly represented it as a fact, casting aspersion on the integrity of innocents in the process. It's not 1984 to say that therein a legal injustice is created which the courts should be empowered to remedy.Those are different things though. I never said freedom of speech can't be restricted, what I meant is that it should only be restricted as a willing participant in something. A journalist can sign a contract to be a part of a media outlet that follows a specific code of conduct that will limit what they can publish on or speak about. A doctor with patient confidentiality. What I don't like is a society that you have no ability to opt out of, coerces you into not voicing an opinion just because they don't like it, or it upsets people. You know who else censored people he didn't like?