This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Don't introduce Statutory State Press Regulation
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Lord Justice Leveson's report has now been published and he is calling for statutory underpinning of press regulation.
We call upon Her Majesty's Government not to introduce statutory state regulation of the press and to preserve the free press which Britain has enjoyed for 300 years.
Moreover, Ofcom should have nothing whatsoever to do with the newspapers. Ofcom is the Office for Communications, and deals with the broadcasting media, not with the free newspapers.
Tougher non-statutory independent self-regulation perhaps along the line of Lord Hunt of Wirral's proposals, with the power to issue fines would be much better in keeping a free press.
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