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a time to stop and think for keyboard warriors
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this is why we are as vigilant here as we have been.
and will be more so in the future.
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Subscriber... and wait until they then start on the social networking sites
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Best damned news I've read this year, I made a comment on JJJ's web site that they had put up about boat people. I got some very nasty and violent replys (basically all I said was do any of you who are so anti them know anything about the conditions they came from) 1 reply included a death threat, I lodged a complaint with JJJ nothing happened.
Last edited by blitz; 7th October 2011 at 12:16 PM. Reason: more words
I agree that it's good news. Sometimes people think that the net is all anonymous, and that they can say what the hell they like and get away with it.
You have an opinion, you should be prepared to stand up behind it in a court of law, not hide behind some user name on the net.
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re lodge it today and see what sort of reaction you get...Originally Posted by blitz
2007 Discovery 3 SE7 TDV6 2.7
2012 SZ Territory TX 2.7 TDCi
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
Master
This type of thing is always a double edged sword ... there are pro's and cons to such action. I always tend to lean toward more freedom of speech - and while I understand the issue of defamation, there is a censorship quality to all this that doesn't sit so well either. It is akin to kids in the play ground calling each other names ... should we have defamation cases in school too?
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SubscriberA lot depends on the language used, and intent. Too often the internet is used by cowards to spread their bile, about time they were made accountable. Democracy and free speech were hard won freedoms, too precious to be abused by small minded imbeciles. BobThis type of thing is always a double edged sword ... there are pro's and cons to such action. I always tend to lean toward more freedom of speech - and while I understand the issue of defamation, there is a censorship quality to all this that doesn't sit so well either. It is akin to kids in the play ground calling each other names ... should we have defamation cases in school too?
Devils avocado ...
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Master
Last I checked, Democracy and freedom of speech are rights that extend to all, small minded imbeciles included. Democracy is in danger when those rights start to be selectively endorsed.
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I'm not sure I know what a democracy is?
We don't have an inalienable right to free speech in Australia, laws of sedition, defamation and slander put limits on free speech.
We also managed to elect a political party based on their leader's promise for no carbon tax and now the tax is on the way, hence we don't live in a democracy but merely a system of elected dictators.
You won't find me on: faceplant; Scipe; Infragam; LumpedIn; ShapCnat or Twitting. I'm just not that interesting.
RoverLord
Australia has no rights of free speech (or much else, for that matter). In fact, proposals to establish a "bill of rights" similar to the American system have been invariably rejected, mainly because Australians cannot agree on what rights we should have.
This case is very similar - we all want our "rights"; as long as someone else's "rights" don't affect these "rights". In this case, we want the right to denounce the "scumbags" of the world, but the right not to be denounced if we behave the same way!
As far as democracy is concerned, Australia's democratic processes, which are certainly not perfect, are an improvement on those of probably 95% of the rest of the world, and unlike "rights", are pretty firmly established by constitution and statute law. If you don't like the current federal government, blame the people who voted for it, not the process. They should know by now that politician's promises are hardly inviolable!
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