Sorry to interrupt your Sunday afternoon but I thought I should let you know that there’s a man on Twitter who thinks it would be a breach of Boris Johnson’s human rights not to publish his suicide-vest column on the front page of the Mail on Sunday 
There is a serious issue here. We see it in the no-platforming debate too. The problem is a conflation of the scrupulous search for dissenting voices with those dissenters’ human rights.
Everyone has the right to speak. But nobody has the right to someone else’s microphone.
Everyone has the right to speak. But nobody has the right to someone else’s microphone.
Logical extension of this is that newspapers and TV stations are compelled to air inflammatory views, and people are compelled to listen or indeed fund them.
We do need a debate about who has access to outlets of mass media; but nobody can ever have an unqualified right to them
We do need a debate about who has access to outlets of mass media; but nobody can ever have an unqualified right to them
