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Those guidelines were not in place when the comments were first made.

It is depressing that we're in a position where talking about protecting the basic human rights of vulnerable people is seen as "political" and even more depressing people are seeing censoring public service broadcasters so they are unable to criticise the government of the day is a perfectly reasonable thing to do in a functioning democracy. That the leading candidate for BBC Chairman seems to want to double down on that too is very concerning.