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[Koeketiene]

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again, you have been free to make the comments, but you have to accept the potential price of your free speech.

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Free speech should not have a price.
It's one of those things this country has gone to war for more than once.

 

[fireball]

Free speech always has a price ... everytime someone listens to you they are evaluating what you have to say - that could be positive or negative ... and their opinion of you may alter depending on what you say - that is the price of saying what you want.

There are laws against the targeting of races and similar laws about defamation of character etc etc ... these laws don't stop you saying what you want, they just make you think about the effects of your words.

 

[moondancer]

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Free speech should not have a price.
It's one of those things this country has gone to war for more than once.

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I'm sorry - but what a load of tosh. This country did not go to war to stop people being dragged through the libel courts. My understanding is that precedence around libel laws make them some of the oldest and most enshrined laws in this country.

If people on here do end up being sued for calling people crooks then I for one will sit back and watch the entertainment.

 

[Sans Bateau]

I think Keith should pull more posts.

Think about it.

What lively debate his action has stimulated!

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[Koeketiene]

Brian,

If to you free speech relates to nothing more than libel laws...

Sad, very sad.


You may remember all the agro early last year regarding the cartoons of Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper.
At the time I posted one of the offending cartoons in The Lounge.
IPC, to their credit, did not pull the post. Free speech and all that...

What's the difference here?
Possibly that Muslim fanatics don't advertise in IPC mags?

 

[rickp]

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What's the difference here?
Possibly that Muslim fanatics don't advertise in IPC mags?

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I guess theres little point in my posting this as your mind is clearly made up - but in simple terms, anything written on this forum is the responsibility of IPC. They are the ones that will be sued if someone thinks they've been libelled. So I think that they (IPC) have every right to remove whatever post they feel like. If you dont like that, demand a refund and set up your own site.

There was a proposal that would have worked in this situation, but alas we couldn't get the Government interested. What would have happened was the post would still have been pulled, but the poster could idemnify IPC against any action and the post would be restored. You'd have your free speech, but it might cost you.

Rick

 

[tome]

What a lot of hot air about nothing on this thread. Someone made a comment which was seen as being potentially libellous and it was pulled

I don't see that IPC should be thrust into the vanguard in terms of protecting our rights to free speech. The forums are provided without charge and if an offensive post is deemed too close to the mark then it gets pulled, period

I don't have any problems with this, and would guess that the majority on here don't either

 

[Lakesailor]

Well said. I get the impression some of the protagonists may have axes to grind.

 

[beancounter]

Agreed

 

[Aardee]

Yep, well said. It's IPC's forum & ultimately their decision what stays & what goes...

 

[Danny Jo]

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I don't have any problems with this, and would guess that the majority on here don't either

[/ QUOTE ] "Me neither" I thought, but then discovered that one of my pearls was a casualty of the pulled thread. Suddenly it's "Hey, this is a gross, outrageous and unacceptable infringement of my right to spout platitudinous drivel."