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Beat the gag on the BBC

December 15, 2009 Leave a comment

Doing my bit against gags and censors

And see here for what the BBC’s page on the matter did look like

Well done to leftoutside for doing the legwork for this attempt at online participation democracy – FOI is not something that should be decided by capital.

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