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by TheManInThePub 1860 days ago
The censorship you refer to happend 30-40 years ago under Thatcher [1]. Sense prevailed and these were promptly overturned.

I'm not sure what mentioning such old events brings to the conversation, any more than a discussion of modern US censorship would benefit from discussing the Satanic Panic under Reagan.

Perhaps you would care to elaborate?

[1] Many quipd that the reason she was cremated was that a burial grave would have needed a ballroom to be built above it.