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 Stirlingsays  21 Feb 20 4.53pm |
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The laudable Toby Young and co are setting up an free speech union, which if we can grow it is hopefully going to become a force for liberty in the online space. Made an inappropriate joke online and activist morons trying to end your career? [Tweet Link]
Here's a link to the union page, I'll be joining myself in the summer.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 21 Feb 20 10.33pm |
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Toby Young flirts with eugenics and yet he is regarded as laudable? Not everyone agrees. Free speech is a perfectly fine aspiration to hold, but it can never mean that everything and anything can be said publicly. Hate speech is real. Freedom has to exist under the law and not beside it. Nor does it mean that social media companies, or university campuses, must accept all views onto their platforms. They are their platforms and not those of anyone seeking to use them. Unrestricted free thought, and free speech in private,, is not in question. That's everyone's right.
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| Stirlingsays 21 Feb 20 10.51pm |
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Eugenics can be a force for good just as it can be a force for the opposite. There is nothing inherent in eugenics, it's purely down to how it's used. So saying Young flirts with eugenics is kind of a meaningless statement. We could say lots of people 'flirt' with eugenics when they choose one person to mate with over other options. Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Feb 2020 10.59pm)
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| Stirlingsays 21 Feb 20 10.56pm |
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As for hate speech. Let me quote Orwell....A quote that amusingly can be found outside the BBC. 'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.' The soviets tried to introduce the concept of 'hate speech' at the UN after the second world war. Back then we had people who weren't fake conservatives and the concept was rejected. Our rules on speech were an example to the world, until the Blair government injected this sickness into our law books. Now we have failures to the left of us, failures to the right....and in the middle...the failures are the worst of all. f*** 'hate speech'. I await and hope that Johnson gives these people the middle finger they so richly deserve. Edited by Stirlingsays (21 Feb 2020 10.58pm)
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| DanH SW2 22 Feb 20 12.24am |
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Toby Young and ‘laudable’ in the same sentence. Ha.
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| Midlands Eagle 22 Feb 20 7.16am |
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Originally posted by DanH
Toby Young and ‘laudable’ in the same sentence. Ha.
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| DanH SW2 22 Feb 20 9.00am |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Oh come on, the bloke is a tit
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| OllieMaidstoneEagle Maidstone, Kent 22 Feb 20 9.10am |
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How about ‘equal speech’! Ollie’s Dad,Ash.
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| Midlands Eagle 22 Feb 20 9.16am |
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Originally posted by DanH
I wouldn't know as I didn't read it just as I don't follow any of the links posted on here unless they are Palace related
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| Stirlingsays 22 Feb 20 9.31am |
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Originally posted by DanH
Oh come on, the bloke is a tit Coming from you that's going to be an endorsement.
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| DanH SW2 22 Feb 20 9.50am |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Coming from you that's going to be an endorsement. He’s thick as sh*t too.
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| Stirlingsays 22 Feb 20 9.57am |
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Originally posted by DanH
He’s thick as sh*t too. Inadvertently you seem to be supporting his cause.
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