Cambridge University debating society drops speaker blacklist

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sounds like they will have a blacklist, just don't want to name it that term, because they forgot a blacklist was used against communists in the past.

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It's more because the non-blacklisted celebs refused to speak there.

Charge can happen if people stand up for what's right.