Not wanting the facts to get in the way of a dramatic phrase, Brendan O’Neill (“Silence of the illiberal lambs”, The Australian, 5/10) claims the Bolt case “censored everyone else in Australia by ruling that…[Bolt’s] words must be purged, like those generals who found themselves scrubbed from group photographs with Stalin”. This would be nothing unusual for defamatory material, but in fact the articles are freely available on the Herald Sun’s website.