Submitted on Saturday 1st December 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Keep Our Press Free from Leveson: Maintain Our Civil Liberties and Democratic Values!
The Leveson inquiry has suggested that regulation underpinned by statute is necessary to maintain press standards. This is wrong and will demolish a proud, British tradition that is centuries old.
Under the present system, those journalists and newspapers that have crossed the line and transgressed the law by hacking phones, for example, are in the process of being dealt with justly, through the courts.
Responding to Leveson should be a matter of analysing existing laws, criminal and civil, and at most requesting an area on the front page of newspapers for corrections and apologies.
We must not allow civil liberties to be gutted by this wave of populism before principle, panic before sound judgement or matters of politics overriding policy.
Protect and restore our freedoms and civil liberties, we, the undersigned, implore you to stop our democracy from crossing this rubicon.
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