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  • You may not be able to say no-platform 'doesn't work', but you can say it's illiberal (free speech is a right), that it's illogical (they're not saying anything you wouldn't hear in a pub) and anti-democratic.

    Continuing to "No Platform" the BNP would be a big mistake Mark Reckons 2009

  • Today I stumbled upon an article that shows just how absurd the no-platform position has now become.

    Free speech for fascists! Johnny Guitar 2008

  • As Brett Lock of the secular left-wing website Harry's Place has written, no-platform nowadays really means "no platform for all who disagree with us."

    Archive 2008-03-01 Johnny Guitar 2008

  • Today I stumbled upon an article that shows just how absurd the no-platform position has now become.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Johnny Guitar 2008

  • As Brett Lock of the secular left-wing website Harry's Place has written, no-platform nowadays really means "no platform for all who disagree with us."

    Free speech for fascists! Johnny Guitar 2008

  • Who is the loser when the no-platform position is applied?

    Archive 2008-03-01 Johnny Guitar 2008

  • Chris Bambery, a long time advocate of the no-platform position, has argued that a political party that advocated the legalisation of rape would be not be tolerated therefore there was no grounds on which to tolerate a party that openly advocated racist policies.

    Free speech for fascists! Johnny Guitar 2008

  • Chris Bambery, a long time advocate of the no-platform position, has argued that a political party that advocated the legalisation of rape would be not be tolerated therefore there was no grounds on which to tolerate a party that openly advocated racist policies.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Johnny Guitar 2008

  • I have never been a proponent of the no-platform line.

    Free speech for fascists! Johnny Guitar 2008

  • I have never been a proponent of the no-platform line.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Johnny Guitar 2008

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