ban freedom of speech

fuck off ...................born wid gobs wernt we ?

 

37 views and no comments guess freedom of spech has been banned already .............. .........oh dear .

 

iun't get it...

 

Get on Paul... you have your say mate

 

About time too, cut down on all that bleedin noise.

 

maybe we should talk in clanger mode (supplied with batterys )

 

thats been done on other forums. on other forums you arent allowed an oppinion unless its the same as the person running the site. laim huh

 

It's cool here dude haven't seen a moderator in months.

 

I know a digital forum that adopts a Hitler formula. This is related to Digital technology like Freeview, sky and cable aswell as Topuptv. Topuptv a recent venture has really put salt into the wound of a forum. It is so easy to get banned. Disagree once, you get warned, disagree twice, thats it, Exile. They are known as Digitalspy. trust me, for techno stuff, it is an ace place to be, but for having your own opinion, one must bite their tongue or pretend to agree. I call it Slaved opinion.

On the positive side, a little easy on the fucking and the rotten bastard son of bitch, stuff and it might be a little easier on here. But taking away freedom of speech is a non starter. This is something that happens in prison. prison is like a sort of community or forum. If convicted, you have no human right entitlement and you cannot speak in court so I speak from experience.

 

hmm tempting hahaha. na i shouldnt

 

yeah who are the mods here. I have not seen much of peace phoniex recentely!!

I do like it here though, you dont feel as if you have people watching every post you make..............

 

we are the mods we are the mods we are we are we are the mods sorry quadraphenia flashback

 

Aye, not a small point ... nowhere is perfect, but I can't stand forums which have an editorial policy and micromanage / edit / move / delete everything in sight which doesn't fit the rules.

 

You're on about the chant ban for activists yeah?​

From Gagged magazine...​

In GAGGED 14 we brought you the news​

that the Met want to bring in in new laws​

that ban the wearing of masks at protests​

& to make the burning of flags a criminal​

offense. Now they want to outlaw​

‘offensive chants’.​

Met Assistant Commissioner, Tarique​

Ghaffur wants powers to proscribe protest​

chants & slogans on placards, banners &​

headbands. The call comes as part of a​

review of the powers to police protests​

prompted by recent protests by Islamic​

extremists, but clearly such powers could​

also be used against protesters such as​

animal rights & anti-globalisation activists.​

The civil rights group Liberty said the​

powers would make the police "censors in​

chief".​

Chuffer of the Met stated, “What we are​

seeing in effect is a rise in the​

politicisation of middle England”. Again the​

State seem to be taking the approach of​

stifling public dissent rather than tackling​

the issues that give rise to the​

politicisation in the first place.​

At the moment ‘causing offense’ is not​

against the law. Who would be the judge of​

what would be classed as causing offense?​

Clearly what offends one will not​

necessarily offend another. Such proposed​

powers would clash with article 10 of the​

European Convention on Human Rights,​

which protects freedom of expression.​

These new demands for curbs on the right​

to protest come as the Lords rule that​

police had acted unlawfully in detaining a​

bus full of Iraq war protesters heading for​

a demonstration at RAF Fairford in March​

2003 & forcibly turning them back. Clearly​

the police are unable to keep a lid on​

protest with existing laws, so rather than​

being “Tough on the causes of crime”, Tony​

Blair’s mantra from the 1997 election, they​

think it easier to invent new laws to​

further erode civil liberty in this country.​

 

I would of thought the law on incitement was adequate enough.

 

I'm alive don't worry!

We are the mods, we are the mods, we are we are we are the mods!

 

JAM

 

Which free speech irritates you the most, is it just people talking to and around you, or does it include films and all forms of artistic expression? If it does, would you ever protest against a film to get it banned? What films would you like to see binned? My top one would be Goal!

 

eh, I had really bad experiences on here involving my saying we should be allowed to SPEAK OF banned members. After I posted on that I was banned. But it wasn't for that, it was because i had double posted accidentally once or twice... ha... but after a bit the whole site went down and they said that all banned members were welcome to rejoin. I still haven't been much on here since though. kinda left me a bit bitter that on a "free speach" forum I wasn't allowed to voice my opinion on allowing us to even talk about the issue of banning and those banned.

 

Another way in which the UK forum here is a little different to the wider forums I think, I always thought it was a bit of an excessive policy that one. Moderators aren't obliged to answer such queries of course but threatening to ban people for merely questioning them?

Nowhere is perfect, and there's no such thing as true free speech especially on the internet, it's a question of finding somewhere you feel is generally better than the alternatives.