Under the law, a government appointed "media council" has the power to impose fines for violating "public interest, public morals or order".
Vague prohibitions against sowing dissension, disrupting ties with other countries or corrupting public morals could be stretched to cover almost any article worth reading.
Last week's rioting in England was the result of an erosion of public morals, according to the Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch.
Following entry into the bar by four plainclothes police and two uniformed patrol officers, all members of the Public Morals Squad, things did not go as planned.
The only politician I have seen publicly criticise Ms Wong is the Reverend Fred Nile of the Christian Democratic Party, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and a self-styled protecter of public morals.
These purposes, added the Director, were specifically listed in the ICCPR as being reserved for protection of other rights, national security, and public health and morals.
He defends liberals against the charge that they seek, illiberally, to keep religion and morals out of public life.
The Public is always asking about newspaper morals.
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He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man.
But while free speech might be the starting point, the ECHR does allow for the restriction of those freedoms to safeguard "public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, protection of the reputation or rights of others".
"It took incredible public pressure for you to look at it... you should have had the guts and morals to do it on your own!"
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