European Human Rights Court Rules Banning Political Ads Not a Violation of Freedom of Expression
Making the case for its worthlessness
An animal rights campaign group has failed to overturn the U.K.'s ban on U.S.-style political advertising on radio and television, according to the Guardian.
By a majority decision, judges at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg have ruled that preventing the broadcast of a commercial ā showing a girl in chains in a chimpanzee's cage ā did not violate freedom of expression.
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They seem to have a different way of valuing freedom of speech in Europe. In that they do not seem to value it much at all.