Looks like Bexley council and the local rozzers have little better to do. I can't help but feel that there must be something a little more serious for them to be spending their time on
Looks like Bexley council and the local rozzers have little better to do. I can't help but feel that there must be something a little more serious for them to be spending their time on
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Post subject: Re: Tweeters and bloggers beware - over the top justice or w
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:56 am
The Video Ref
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Joined: Feb 29 2004 Posts: 4195
I agree all this seems excessive.
Nevertheless, people do seem to think that they are somehow protected from prosecution if they post comments on Facebook / Twitter. These places basically amount to a public forum, and it is no surprise that the old bill come knocking when people post stuff that would have landed them in hot poop had they said it down the local boozer or on the high street.
Post subject: Re: Tweeters and bloggers beware - over the top justice or w
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:03 am
Rock God X
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The Video Ref wrote:I agree all this seems excessive.
Nevertheless, people do seem to think that they are somehow protected from prosecution if they post comments on Facebook / Twitter. These places basically amount to a public forum, and it is no surprise that the old bill come knocking when people post stuff that would have landed them in hot poop had they said it down the local boozer or on the high street.
I fail to see how he'd be in bother for referring to his local councillor as a c*nt in the pub.
Post subject: Re: Tweeters and bloggers beware - over the top justice or w
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:07 am
McLaren_Field
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As always, when you read beyond the headline there is a little more to the story.
If you wish to engage anyone in conversation, whatever their point of view, then there are ways and means and generally speaking that doesn't involve the use of the sort of language that the blogger used, its not really a freedom of expression issue, more an issue of intelligence and a lack of it.
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Post subject: Re: Tweeters and bloggers beware - over the top justice or w
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:12 am
The Video Ref
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Rock God X wrote:I fail to see how he'd be in bother for referring to his local councillor as a c*nt in the pub.
The Public Order Act can be moulded and bended to suit all circumstances if a particularly bloody minded copper is in the area. I have known of people getting prosecuted for what amounts to little more than swearing in public.
Post subject: Re: Tweeters and bloggers beware - over the top justice or w
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:15 am
Rock God X
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McLaren_Field wrote:As always, when you read beyond the headline there is a little more to the story.
If you wish to engage anyone in conversation, whatever their point of view, then there are ways and means and generally speaking that doesn't involve the use of the sort of language that the blogger used, its not really a freedom of expression issue, more an issue of intelligence and a lack of it.
So we should be prosecuting people for lack of intelligence? Whatever your opinion of the language used, there's no reason whatsoever that this should become a criminal matter. They guy expressed an opinion.
Looks like Bexley council and the local rozzers have little better to do. I can't help but feel that there must be something a little more serious for them to be spending their time on
Looks like Bexley council and the local rozzers have little better to do. I can't help but feel that there must be something a little more serious for them to be spending their time on
If he had said 'I think he is a c*nt instead of he is, he might have got away with it, unless thoughts are now policed.
'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
Post subject: Re: Tweeters and bloggers beware - over the top justice or w
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:40 am
cod'ead
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Joined: May 25 2002 Posts: 37704 Location: Zummerzet, where the zoider apples grow
rover49 wrote:If he had said 'I think he is a c*nt instead of he is, he might have got away with it, unless thoughts are now policed.
Just as Gary Stephens did to me in an infamous Friday night match between Leeds & Halifax at Headingley. I knew I was on a loser as soon as I saw that the scrum halves were Stephens and Ray Ashton, I should've gone down with an ankle injury in the first minute.
The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan
Post subject: Re: Tweeters and bloggers beware - over the top justice or w
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:07 am
McLaren_Field
International Chairman
Joined: Feb 26 2002 Posts: 32466 Location: Leeds
Rock God X wrote:So we should be prosecuting people for lack of intelligence? Whatever your opinion of the language used, there's no reason whatsoever that this should become a criminal matter. They guy expressed an opinion.
Again, read the report, if he'd just blogged that opinion once then there would probably no such reaction.
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Post subject: Re: Tweeters and bloggers beware - over the top justice or w
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:10 am
Rock God X
Player Coach
Joined: Oct 21 2006 Posts: 10852
McLaren_Field wrote:
Rock God X wrote:So we should be prosecuting people for lack of intelligence? Whatever your opinion of the language used, there's no reason whatsoever that this should become a criminal matter. They guy expressed an opinion.
Again, read the report, if he'd just blogged that opinion once then there would probably no such reaction.
He can express his opinion as frequently as he likes, can't he?
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