Free Culture

Well, a lot depends on the culture. In Austria, for instance, the state quite rightly bans holocaust denial because, the Austrian people being who they are, there’s a very real danger of a Nazi revival. Whereas England has a centuries-old tradition of tolerance. Apart from a few uneducated, Sun-reading types—usually less successful in the socio-economic game, I’m afraid, who are susceptible to hate-speech and so on, and have to be protected.