This is a strange news story from Sky News about how privacy is important after a grizzly crime.

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I understand why the dad of one of the people killed said the sentence in the headline.

But describing the crime in a blunt way is not as barbaric — in anyway near the same way — as this crime.

My instinct is that in a free society people and police must be able to frankly discuss violence publicly … in order to better police it.

The needs of victims and families are important…and should be protected where possible.

Yet suppressing free speech won’t make for a more sustainable society.

Shooting the messenger is still aiming at the wrong person. No matter how clumsy that person is.

See snips below.

(Garble in first version of this story was caused partly by bad WordPress software for iPhone)