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Seems fair enough to me.

Warning the ever growing number of people who can't take it in that they are socially responsible for comments they make on line.
 
Jack said:
Seems fair enough to me.

Warning the ever growing number of people who can't take it in that they are socially responsible for comments they make on line.
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Does this seem fair Jack?

"I remind you that the law as written and enforced allows for the creation of entirely fictitious or imaginary people who might have been offended had they existed and had they been present to hear the alleged criminal offences"

So in other words, if you make a slanderous comment [for example] and nobody is there to be offended, you can still be prosecuted because, well just because.

I'm with [MENTION=2693]Smurf[/MENTION] on this. Are we heading for a police state?

PS. Can they convict that witch Hopkins for her slanderous tweet re "sweaty jocks" in relation to the nurse who contracted Ebola and if so why arent they. I'm offended.
 
Dub said:
Does this seem fair Jack?

"I remind you that the law as written and enforced allows for the creation of entirely fictitious or imaginary people who might have been offended had they existed and had they been present to hear the alleged criminal offences"

So in other words, if you make a slanderous comment [for example] and nobody is there to be offended, you can still be prosecuted because, well just because.

I'm with @Smurf on this. Are we heading for a police state?

PS. Can they convict that witch Hopkins for her slanderous tweet re "sweaty jocks" in relation to the nurse who contracted Ebola and if so why arent they. I'm offended.
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Slander isn't a criminal offence...yet. Neither is its written counterpart - libel.
The number of jobs I get in a week where someone is trying to make a complaint about what some other eejit has either said or posted online about them, or where they've heard it from a third party or seen the post on someone else's thread, is fuckin soul destroying.
 
Beagle said:
Slander isn't a criminal offence......yet. Neither is its written counterpart - libel.
The number of jobs I get in a week where someone is trying to make a complaint about what some other eejit has either said or posted online about them, or where they've heard it from a third party or seen the post on someone else's thread, is fuckin soul destroying.
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I didn't think so Beagle so how do you equate that truth with the tweet posted in the OP?

Anyway, you don't have long to go.....


.....The days are counting down :yas:
 
Dub said:
I didn't think so Beagle so how do you equate that truth with the tweet posted in the OP?

Anyway, you don't have long to go.....


.....The days are counting down :yas:
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84 shifts and counting (too many).

As the blog says, we live in the age of being offended. Somewhere along the line the handwringers and touchy feely type people have gained influence in society and have consigned the man the fuck up pills to the recycling bin. It's unbelievable. Someone posts something or says something these days and the howitzers are lining up along the western front. Usually by the time I get to the job to tell them that nobody ever got injured by a keyboard, unless they were hit over the head with one, the whole situation has grown arms and legs. Look at that whole nonsense with that munter Katie Holmes, she's a 'celebrity' who makes a living out of saying inappropriate things. That was oxygen to her celebrity status yet the whole of north Britain went tonto to the point she got lifted, as did one or two others who made a joke out of a tragedy. These people should just have been rightly ignored instead of national media trawling social media hoping to be offended on the nation's behalf so they could sell newspapers on the back of faux outrage.
 
Beagle said:
84 shifts and counting (too many).

As the blog says, we live in the age of being offended. Somewhere along the line the handwringers and touchy feely type people have gained influence in society and have consigned the man the fuck up pills to the recycling bin. It's unbelievable. Someone posts something or says something these days and the howitzers are lining up along the western front. Usually by the time I get to the job to tell them that nobody ever got injured by a keyboard, unless they were hit over the head with one, the whole situation has grown arms and legs. Look at that whole nonsense with that munter Katie Holmes, she's a 'celebrity' who makes a living out of saying inappropriate things. That was oxygen to her celebrity status yet the whole of north Britain went tonto to the point she got lifted, as did one or two others who made a joke out of a tragedy. These people should just have been rightly ignored instead of national media trawling social media hoping to be offended on the nation's behalf so they could sell newspapers on the back of faux outrage.
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Katie Holmes
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Rancid attention seeker
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Easy mistake to make officer :coffee:
 
I saw that women on a programme my wife was watching the other night (sadly Hopkins not Holmes).

Anyway she was engaged in a quest to gain weight and then lose it so as to buttress her arguments that fatties should eat less and move more, rather than make excuses.

Anyhow, along the way she met with some lard liberation activists, who claim that being fat is healthy and all of medical knowledge is (presumably) bigotry.

Hopkins insisted that it was not healthy and the NHS and thus all of us were beginning to bear the cost. At this point an outraged activist declared she was reporting Hopkins for commiting a hate crime for saying what she said. And sure enough went on to do so (on camera). Fortunately the rozzers were too busy ensuring that a local 8 year old was denied bail after calling someone (who did not so identify) a big girl in the playground and thus did not elect to follow up

Whateve Hopkins is, this mentality is a 1000 times worse and along the way justifies her existence.

Id have banged up the corpulent commissars for wasting police time. And put em on bread and water rations
 
Dub said:
Does this seem fair Jack?

"I remind you that the law as written and enforced allows for the creation of entirely fictitious or imaginary people who might have been offended had they existed and had they been present to hear the alleged criminal offences"

So in other words, if you make a slanderous comment [for example] and nobody is there to be offended, you can still be prosecuted because, well just because.

I'm with [MENTION=2693]Smurf[/MENTION] on this. Are we heading for a police state?

PS. Can they convict that witch Hopkins for her slanderous tweet re "sweaty jocks" in relation to the nurse who contracted Ebola and if so why arent they. I'm offended.
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Yeah, I've read that para before and no I don't generally agree with it. On a similar note I don't generally agree with folk complaining on others behalf.
 
southfieldhibby said:
Who do you love more Kenny, Alex Massie or Alan Cochrane?
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Politically I'm not that in tune with either.

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Jack said:
Seems fair enough to me.

Warning the ever growing number of people who can't take it in that they are socially responsible for comments they make on line.
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I would prefer that their resources were used to fight real crime personally. But be careful with your reply because I won't hesitate to draw to their attention anything you do say...
 
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Smurf said:
Politically I'm not that in tune with either.

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I would prefer that their resources were used to fight real crime personally. But be careful with your reply because I want hesitate to draw to their attention anything you do say...
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I can tell you that your average cop also wants to deal with real crime - housebreakings, assaults etc, but are being strangled by all this shite of hurt feelings. More time is spent meeting performance targets of issuing fixed penalty tickets (which doesn't exist apparently) and completing forms for partnership working than actually being out on the street. It's like the enforcement branch of the social work department.
You can expect to see less officers on the street once this social media department is fully set up as it needs to be resourced from somewhere and the only place to get resources is the beat office.
 
It really is scary to think that a Stasi like apparatus is being formed and even more scary, is how willing, nay, eager, people are to go along with it. It won't be long before you will be sitting in pubs speaking in hushed tones in fear of being reported for telling an iffy joke or voicing an opinion that is not PC.

And why are people so easily offended these days ? Some twit in England just lost his job for "tweeting" that he hit a cyclist but was late for work so didn't stop. LOL ! Police involved of course. Madness.
 
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