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It is reasonable to invite Robert Gordon along to speak to the committee to get clarification on the specific issues that are addressed in Hugh Henry's letter.
The defence would be available to persons authorised by the Secretary of State to carry out technology testing activities to prevent or detect prohibited materials, which would otherwise fall under specific obscenity offences.
My basic concern is monopolies, which are not a good thing because we do not get competition with them. There is evidence that we do not get competition in the sense of people being prepared to look very carefully at what they do.
Finland had a temperance movement, and it is still pretty active. It has one month when it tries to get people to abstain from drinking alcohol but, being clever Finns, they picked February because it has only 28 days.