Britain’s Royal Charter on the Press is founded on a misconception: that speech should be free only if “right” or “accurate”. This misconception will spread. It will penetrate institutions and change our free habits, writes FRP’s Guglielmo Verdirame at Conservative Home.
The regulation of the press is part of a broader attack on self-regulation launched by the previous British Government. The current Government first did little to reverse it. It has now embraced it. From universities to the legal profession, from Parliament and now to the press, ancient liberties have been dismantled and replaced with government-sponsored bureaucracies. How could it be otherwise? The Government always knows better and does it more fairly.
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