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Will you miss free speech when it's gone?
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OhthisbloodyPC  09 Jan 17 5.40pm |
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We are about to lose one of the great liberties of this country, thanks to a sort of Philanderer's Law Alan Partridge, crisp salesman Gary Lineker, Oswald Mosely's son and Hugh Grant are all pressurising for the freedoms we took for granted to be abolished, just in case they leave their wives or sleep with some prostitutes and it gets in the papers. It looks like the law is going to go through Will you miss free speech when it's gone?
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 Y Ddraig Goch  In The Crowd 09 Jan 17 5.42pm |
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Not sure free speech and tittle tattle are necessarily the same thing
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 becky over the moon 09 Jan 17 5.51pm |
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Free speech went years ago - think he died in the same accident as his friend Common Sense
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| OhthisbloodyPC 09 Jan 17 6.15pm |
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Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch
Not sure free speech and tittle tattle are necessarily the same thing
But it should not be governed by the briefs* of Hugh Grant
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eagleman13  On The Road To Hell & Alicante 09 Jan 17 6.19pm |
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Im only allowed 'free speech' when the (ex)wife/partner/daughter/various other females allow me to
This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise. |
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| Michaelawt85 Bexley 09 Jan 17 7.02pm |
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Originally posted by eagleman13
Im only allowed 'free speech' when the (ex)wife/partner/daughter/various other females allow me to
Silence!
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| eagleman13 On The Road To Hell & Alicante 09 Jan 17 7.12pm |
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Originally posted by Michaelawt85
Silence! YES Miss
This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise. |
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Ray in Houston  Houston 09 Jan 17 7.53pm |
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Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch
Not sure free speech and tittle tattle are necessarily the same thing
Edited by Ray in Houston (09 Jan 2017 7.54pm)
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 10 Jan 17 9.39am |
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Free speech really only protects you from the state and apparatus of state, not other individuals legal recourse. Also the fourth estate is protected under freedoms of the press, provided its a news story or has 'public interest'. There is a balancing act to be had between the right to privacy / free speech and the freedom of the press. Tabloid journalism just demeans the notion of free speech as a means of creating profit, without liability.
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| OhthisbloodyPC 10 Jan 17 10.18am |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
Free speech really only protects you from the state and apparatus of state, not other individuals legal recourse. Also the fourth estate is protected under freedoms of the press, provided its a news story or has 'public interest'. There is a balancing act to be had between the right to privacy / free speech and the freedom of the press. Tabloid journalism just demeans the notion of free speech as a means of creating profit, without liability.
I don't want that power in the hands of a few people. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, as they say. I'd rather have a free press than an authoritarian regime and repressed citizens. Nuts to Hugh Grant and his sensitivities. I don't want news blackouts imposed just because Steve Coogan doesn't like it known that he likes coke and hookers, and Gary Lineker needs to keep his brand polished.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 10 Jan 17 11.01am |
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Originally posted by OhthisbloodyPC
I don't want that power in the hands of a few people. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, as they say. I'd rather have a free press than an authoritarian regime and repressed citizens. Nuts to Hugh Grant and his sensitivities. I don't want news blackouts imposed just because Steve Coogan doesn't like it known that he likes coke and hookers, and Gary Lineker needs to keep his brand polished. Public interest would be a genuine news story, rather than a matter that affects only the private individuals and their life. We don't have a free press, its largely owned by large multi-national corporations. The press has a responsibility to report news, not moral judgements on individuals private lives - Indeed forcing the Press to focus on news, rather than 'interest stories' is in societies best interest, as it could actually work to save journalism.
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| Cucking Funt Clapham on the Back 10 Jan 17 12.03pm |
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The press only have themselves to blame. They have repeatedly shown that they're incapable of regulating themselves, as the output of the Mail and the red-tops demonstrate on an almost daily basis.
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