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| | Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | I was an Oz schoolkid |
 | | The Oz obscenity trial was as much a clash of two Britains as the Lady Chatterley case had been a decade earlier: two landmark events in a cultural war which, as the moral panics over Brass Eye, American Psycho and Crash would suggest, is still going on. |
 | | Schoolkids' Oz didn't sell particularly well, and the Oz team had practically forgotten about it when, two months later, the obscene publications squad crashed into the Oz office in Holland Park, locked the doors, disconnected the phones and began carting away everything remotely connected to Oz 28. |
 | | From Chatterley to Oz, from Crash to Brass Eye, we have seen those who are threatened by ideas demand censorship in order to win cultural wars when they know, in their heart of hearts, that they have already lost the argument. |
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