Ofcom should have the right to demand certain voices, like Tommy Robinson’s, are deplatformed.
So you do mean censorship then?
Ofcom should have the right to demand certain voices, like Tommy Robinson’s, are deplatformed.
So you do mean censorship then?
in Germany, illegal Nazi content is routinely removed within minutes of it being reported. Liability extends to local leaders and it is incredibly mobilising.
They couldn’t be more overt about their goal could they? – any opponent = ‘Nazi’/Far Right and must therefore lose their right to a platform. Let’s hope Musk stands firm and we could do with starting to remove pro Labour, SNP and Green voices, including the likes of Murphy from there for their overt anti- semitism as well.
Boo hoo
“Musk sacked me and now Twitter is full of hurty words.”
Twat
I had to give up this whingefest halfway through.
Instagram, by the way, is anodyne and boring since Meta started clamping down.
I did like the ‘Guardian’ article confidently stating that the Starmbanfurer ‘would not be getting into a tit for tat’ with Musk on Twitter.
We know why. He already did. And lost!
This Musk reply to the impertinent and unelected EU wanker Thierry Breton amused me:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823076043017630114?s=46
This video from Ireland, which I rather think M Breton doesn’t want us to see, less so:
https://x.com/mick_o_keeffe/status/1823082554054074804?s=46
We only have to go back 3 or 4 years to see that they only censor those spreading hate, lies and misinformation, not those saying ‘ actually, no, I don’t accept what you are forcing us to do because the evidence doesn’t support it’, those asking legitimate questions or those telling the truth.
Interested
That letter from Breton is just awful – if you wanted a succinct summary of why Brexit was vital you could do worse than point to that.
Musk’s rectitude can be assessed by who he is pissing off – the likes of Humza Yousuf and Sadiq Khan are on a par with Richard Murphy in terms of their intrinsic racism and evil. If you’re pissing such people off you know you are on the right lines.
but in the UK 1998 Human Rights Act, article 10 enshrines freedom of speech. Critically, there is a recognition that free expression carries with it a duty of responsibility. The UK law requires that such free speech is not used to incite criminality or spread hatred.
UK law “enshrines” freedom of speech, which is why they sentenced Sam Melia to two years in prison for stickers and took his children off him, for thinking it was ok to be white.
What, the bloke who’s been calling for peaceful protest for the last three weeks and condemning the violence? That Tommy Robinson?
Or the imaginary bogeyman in Guardian readers’ heads?
Sam – they’re feeling froggy enough to call for Elon Musk to be jailed, because they don’t like the cut of his opinions. It’s not just Tommy Robinson they want to imprison.
Billy Thompson, 31 was sent to prison for 12 for emojis which “incited racial violence.”
The judge previously let a pedophile who had been stashing child abuse images walk free because he had “displayed remorse.”.
William Nelson Morgan, 69 was given 32 months in prison for refusing to move out of the way of police officers.
The judge previously let a pedophile who collected baby rape videos walk with no jail time because his lawyer said he had “good character.”.
We could go on and on and on, but the feminist website that collated Two Tier Kier’s list of surprisingly pedo-friendly judges has already been threatened with criminal prosecution under the UK’s “free speech” laws.
Do you not find this sort of thing amusing? If I was Elon Musk, in favour of free speech, I’d make one small change to the house rules. You get deplatformed from X for one reason & one reason only. Advocating other X users should be deplatformed. Be enormous fun.
Thierry Breton:
The thing about EU-speak is that it is infinitely flexible and can be moulded by officials to favour their position in any situation. The concept of “greater” due diligence is absurd since by “due” one should understand the appropriate degree of diligence has been exercised to meet the circumstances.
If one allows that due diligence can be qualified in this manner one admits the possibility that “due diligence” can be inadequate.
@TMB
The concept of “greater” due diligence is absurd since by “due” one should understand the appropriate degree of diligence has been exercised to meet the circumstances.
Excellent point.
Of course, it’s merely coincidental that the same people allowing the importation to Europe of untold numbers of unknown young men from Africa and the Middle East, some of whom go on to commit horrific crimes, are censoring and even criminalising any attempt to protest or even really talk about it, at the same time as pretty much the same thing is happening in the USA, Canada, and Australia.
Zere.
Ist.
Now.
Konspiracy.
Zere.
Ist.
Ownly.
Konspiracy.
Seories.
@Van_Patten
Lets pray that Murphy doesn’t get censored. Without his outpourings to scorn Tim would have to go back to beating squirrels to death for a hobby. 😉
Wokiepedia will soon have its collar felt for this misinformation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_stabbing_incidents_(2020–present)
Hardly a Tom, Dick, Harry, Gaston, Earl or Sven in sight. They all seem to have weird foreign sounding names. Can’t be true, can it?
Interested. You don’t need a f***ing conspiracy theory. All of the countries concerned are governed by politicians with the same sort of politics. So they have the same sort of policies? That a surprise? You might as well say there’s a conspiracy amongst the voters who elect them.
He gives it away halfway through.
“It used to be fun on Twitter.”
Yes, for progressive asshats, it was a rollicking party!
Now, we all party, and his crew look at our party and their mouths pucker up like they’re sucking lemons.