Twitter and Scientology: Don't use the 'S'-word

"When he walked past a Scientology centre on a trip to London last year, a councillor from Cardiff cannot have expected that his reaction would end up fuelling another big hoo-hah over free speech on the internet.

Nor that it would end up with him being hauled up in front of his council's ethics committee.

But Councillor John Dixon's mistake was to go on Twitter and say this:

"I didn't know the Scientologists had a church on Tottenham Court Road. Just hurried past in case the stupid rubs off."

So...