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palace_in_frogland Flag In a broken dream 01 Nov 22 12.28pm Send a Private Message to palace_in_frogland Add palace_in_frogland as a friend

Originally posted by Nicholas91

You just have to pipe up with this sort of comment don't you! Flushing away sensible conversation into the gutter. Sick of your toilet humour!

Drives me round the bend.

 

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YT Flag Oxford 01 Nov 22 3.28pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by Nicholas91

You just have to pipe up with this sort of comment don't you! Flushing away sensible conversation into the gutter. Sick of your toilet humour!

Who opened your valve?

 


Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

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Nicholas91 Flag The Democratic Republic of Kent 01 Nov 22 4.34pm Send a Private Message to Nicholas91 Add Nicholas91 as a friend

Originally posted by YT

Who opened your valve?

I'm all done for now, long day!

 


Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

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MrWhyNot Flag 01 Nov 22 11.37pm

Some believe in freedom of speech, others freedom of their own speech. Unfortunately for the latter many believe in both.

Edited by MrWhyNot (01 Nov 2022 11.57pm)

 

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Stirlingsays Flag 02 Nov 22 1.55am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by MrWhyNot

Some believe in freedom of speech, others freedom of their own speech. Unfortunately for the latter many believe in both.

Edited by MrWhyNot (01 Nov 2022 11.57pm)

Yep, many of them are fine with speech that chimes with their own ideas or biases....like this photo for example, but they would agree with shutting down West's speech because that to them is real 'hate'.

Many of them are fine with 'hate' when they think it's justified...their own of course. They just don't think anyone else with the opposite view to them should be allowed to express themselves.....I say that knowing that the whole 'hate' term nonsense is just a tactic they use to scare people away from opinions they don't like.

Not many people know that the Soviets used the same tactics and tried to make the west adopt them through the UN after WW2.....The western countries refused back then only for later generations to embarrass their forebears.


Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Nov 2022 1.59am)

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orpingtoneagle Flag Orpington 05 Nov 22 10.24pm Send a Private Message to orpingtoneagle Add orpingtoneagle as a friend

Free Speech does not exist.

Many of every political hue aspire to it, many say it really either does or could exist but it never will and never can exist as there will always be some group or other that takes offence

 

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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 07 Nov 22 1.35pm Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

The MSM and social media have been in overdrive about Musk taking over Twitter with organised campaigns to persuade advertisers to boycott it and users to switch to other platforms.

Then when he announced job cuts they all seem to get upset about it even though business experts pointed out that the Tech sector is in trouble. Of course the same people who were campaigning to oust Musk and get advertisers to boycott will no doubt be the loudest complainers now that he is sacking people. I mean what did they expect?

Any how Facebook has just announced it intends to make similar job cuts I look forward to the same feeding frenzy but I wont hold my breath.


Edited by Badger11 (07 Nov 2022 1.36pm)

 


One more point

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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 31 Jan 24 8.17am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

I'm surprised no one has commentated on Laurence Fox's lost libel action.

Whilst I agree with some things he has said about the woke he really did lose the plot over this. You can't just accuse someone of being a paedo without some sort of evidence to back it up.

He is now in big trouble financially and reputationaly and to be fair this shows the limits of free speech and I don't have a problem with it.

Free speech is not a free for all where you can just say what you like about anyone so he only has himself to blame.

 


One more point

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Stirlingsays Flag 31 Jan 24 8.49am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Badger11

I'm surprised no one has commentated on Laurence Fox's lost libel action.

Whilst I agree with some things he has said about the woke he really did lose the plot over this. You can't just accuse someone of being a paedo without some sort of evidence to back it up.

He is now in big trouble financially and reputationaly and to be fair this shows the limits of free speech and I don't have a problem with it.

Free speech is not a free for all where you can just say what you like about anyone so he only has himself to blame.

I agree that when it comes to calling people paedos without evidence it scores pretty highly on the offence meter. Outside of that though I don't agree with anything they have done to him previously.

The big problem here is of course that because of Blair and the liberal establishment the law now operates on 'perception' of offence. Essentially it frees liberals to run riot.

So if you have a significant audience like Fox and have opinions then they are going to do a 'Katie Hopkins' on you (she lost her house)...essentially because they can.

Fox is going to lose his shirt if he carries on like this....Hopkins had some good advice for him.

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There is the additional point that silly and petty cases like this feel like a waste of high court time.

Edited by Stirlingsays (31 Jan 2024 8.56am)

 


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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 31 Jan 24 9.09am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

I agree that when it comes to calling people paedos without evidence it scores pretty highly on the offence meter. Outside of that though I don't agree with anything they have done to him previously.

The big problem here is of course that because of Blair and the liberal establishment the law now operates on 'perception' of offence. Essentially it frees liberals to run riot.

So if you have a significant audience like Fox and have opinions then they are going to do a 'Katie Hopkins' on you (she lost her house)...essentially because they can.

Fox is going to lose his shirt if he carries on like this....Hopkins had some good advice for him.

[Link]

There is the additional point that silly and petty cases like this feel like a waste of high court time.

Edited by Stirlingsays (31 Jan 2024 8.56am)

Quite a measured POV from Katie although in LF's case he really didn't have a leg to stand on.

My guess is that he just got caught up in a social media spat and hasn't had the commonsense to back out of it.

 


One more point

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Stirlingsays Flag 31 Jan 24 9.12am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Badger11

Quite a measured POV from Katie although in LF's case he really didn't have a leg to stand on.

My guess is that he just got caught up in a social media spat and hasn't had the commonsense to back out of it.

Yep, pretty much.

 


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Matov Flag 31 Jan 24 8.32pm Send a Private Message to Matov Add Matov as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays


There is the additional point that silly and petty cases like this feel like a waste of high court time.


Edited by Stirlingsays (31 Jan 2024 8.56am)


Wary of the likes of Fox. Not a wise man in many, many ways. An unhelpful distraction.

 


"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

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