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Stirlingsays 17 Feb 18 12.26pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Beyond belief. Who are the people making these decisions? So expressing an opinion that favours a traditional family is now 'unacceptable'.
There is no other way to say it. These people are fukcing nuts.
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Seconded.
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Rudi Hedman Caterham 17 Feb 18 12.57pm |
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Mob rule, innit.
People shout on twitter, they get what they want, when profits and image are at slight risk.
More ridiculous was the B&B who didn't want the gay couple sharing a double. His property, his rules.
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Rudi Hedman Caterham 17 Feb 18 1.01pm |
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Originally posted by Harry Beever
It’s a slippery slope when companies try to enforce the censorship of opinions in this way. People should be free to read his column and make their own mind up as to whether Littlejohn is an attention seeking idiot or not.
Not in today's world. Banned starting at university. Anything slightly right of say Tony Blair.
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Stirlingsays 17 Feb 18 1.11pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Not in today's world. Banned starting at university. Anything slightly right of say Tony Blair.
If you had told me twenty years ago that this country would be like this I just wouldn't have believed you.
Load of lefty purity testers successfully bullying companies.
'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)
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Ulysses 17 Feb 18 5.58pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Beyond belief. Who are the people making these decisions? So expressing an opinion that favours a traditional family is now 'unacceptable'.
There is no other way to say it. These people are fukcing nuts.
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Except nowhere does it say that the opinion is "unacceptable", just the "inappropriate" placement of the original advert. They're a family-based holiday park, relying on all families (gay-straight-trans-black-white, etc.) to pay a (quite frankly ridiculous) amount to go there. They're a business and they're exercising their freedom of speech to make a corporate decision. Doesn't sound "nuts" to me at all. As far as I can see, no one has succeeded in censoring or banning Littlejohn - he's absolutely free to say whatever he likes.
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Harry Beever Newbury 17 Feb 18 6.22pm |
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Originally posted by Ulysses
Except nowhere does it say that the opinion is "unacceptable", just the "inappropriate" placement of the original advert. They're a family-based holiday park, relying on all families (gay-straight-trans-black-white, etc.) to pay a (quite frankly ridiculous) amount to go there. They're a business and they're exercising their freedom of speech to make a corporate decision. Doesn't sound "nuts" to me at all. As far as I can see, no one has succeeded in censoring or banning Littlejohn - he's absolutely free to say whatever he likes.
Not yet but newspapers are hanging on by the skin of their teeth and if a journalist is clearly costing the paper advertising revenue he’s far more likely to be shown the door. I hope people continue to be free to express their opinions and others continue to be free to laugh at those opinions or not as the case may be. Risk of causing offence can’t be allowed to stifle polite debate. It gives a group (whichever) the ability to steamroller over everyone else’s views.
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Hrolf The Ganger 17 Feb 18 6.24pm |
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Originally posted by Ulysses
Except nowhere does it say that the opinion is "unacceptable", just the "inappropriate" placement of the original advert. They're a family-based holiday park, relying on all families (gay-straight-trans-black-white, etc.) to pay a (quite frankly ridiculous) amount to go there. They're a business and they're exercising their freedom of speech to make a corporate decision. Doesn't sound "nuts" to me at all. As far as I can see, no one has succeeded in censoring or banning Littlejohn - he's absolutely free to say whatever he likes.
How is it inappropriate to put an advert next to someone expressing a widely held opinion?
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Ulysses 17 Feb 18 7.06pm |
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Of course it's inappropriate if an opinion contrasts massively with a company's all-families-welcome ethos! This is, after all, a very successful business that would like all types of families to continue spending near to a grand during a half term. Again, really doesn't seem nuts to me. Am I missing something, or does this seem like a simple rule of advertising?
Alternatively, perhaps the opinion isn't as widely held as you think?
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Hrolf The Ganger 17 Feb 18 7.28pm |
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Originally posted by Ulysses
Of course it's inappropriate if an opinion contrasts massively with a company's all-families-welcome ethos! This is, after all, a very successful business that would like all types of families to continue spending near to a grand during a half term. Again, really doesn't seem nuts to me. Am I missing something, or does this seem like a simple rule of advertising?
Alternatively, perhaps the opinion isn't as widely held as you think?
What this company and other such spineless fools need to realise is that they are on the slippery slope which allows a minority of people to become 'offended' by inceasingly ridiculous things and stiffle free opinion.
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Ulysses 17 Feb 18 8.26pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
What this company and other such spineless fools need to realise is that they are on the slippery slope which allows a minority of people to become 'offended' by inceasingly ridiculous things and stiffle free opinion.
Whose opinion here has been stifled?
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