Kicking people off Twitter is not censorship. Censorship can only ever be enacted by the state.
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Kicking people off Twitter is not censorship. Censorship can only ever be enacted by the state.
Lol quite apt that is.
I see our usual right whingers are up in arms being triggered by her banishment on Twitter.
How anyone could even remotely sympathise with her is truly beyond me.
Good riddance to that scumbag of a person though.
Just a shame twitter can’t ban that orange oompah loompah across the ocean lol.
Not quite sure what point you're attempting to make here?
I did, but I'd had about 8 drams by then, so I reserve the right to improperly highlight important passages of statutory law.
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She's appears to be a horrible cretin and says devisive things that offend a lot of people - providing her a platform to continue to do this, when it's really something the world could do without at the moment appears to be a completely sane and proportionate move IMO
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I can't help you there pal . . . take more water in future?
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I deleted twitter it is proper cesspit left and right wingers are as bad as eachother on there. I feel a lot mote chilled without it.
It can’t be healthy for people like James O Brian , Ash Sarkar , Owen Jones, Hopkins waking up everyday and thinking about posting something which stirs the pot and comes with a backlash.
It can’t be healthy for people like James O Brian , Ash Sarkar , Owen Jones, Hopkins waking up everyday and thinking about posting something which stirs the pot and comes with a backlash.
I can't help you there pal . . . take more water in future?
A valid point. Except I have a cask strength Glen Garioch, so even with a full tsp of water it's still over 40%!
My quarter annoys you? Sigh I disagree with [x] so I will categorise [y] using my crystal ball keep that rhetoric in the playground please.
I disagree that Twitter is not a monopoly its certainly dominant enough to be considered one with it's vast scope and audience and it's ad revunue working hand in hand with another monopoly Google all of them feed and make money off of each other in tandem rince and repeat.
We live in era where shared data on social media can start mass protest unrest, riots and revolutions (the Arab spring comes to mind).
Would you like it if they censored data of police brutality because of reasons? Do we want to become more like China? I don't even give a damn about Katie bloody Hopkins but I do not like deplatforming period, which to me is digital censorship which thus falls under censorship which by its very nature is authortarian and I will never support this.
Fine.
There's a pub in a remote village on an island 30 miles from a mainland.
There's an obnoxiously loud and delinquent customer who's been given plenty of chances to be more civil.
A pub can deny service to anyone without needing a reason for doing so.
Is it wrong for this pub - who serves an unnecessary product to people - to ban this customer and functionally deprive them of this product?
There's a pub in a remote village on an island 30 miles from a mainland.
There's an obnoxiously loud and delinquent customer who's been given plenty of chances to be more civil.
A pub can deny service to anyone without needing a reason for doing so.
Is it wrong for this pub - who serves an unnecessary product to people - to ban this customer and functionally deprive them of this product?
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Bad analogy as people in the pub cannot block said individual.
That's fair, though if Twitter removed said ability, which honestly is something i'd support, that they would be free to act in whatever manner they wish to protect their revenue?
Their real customers are after all advertisers, not the users.
Their real customers are after all advertisers, not the users.
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Hang on. Are people saying its wrong to ban her as denies her free speech? Twitter and a person's free speech are in no way related - it's a business that makes money from adversiting, no one has a 'right' to Twitter, or Facebook, or any other social media platforms surely
I don't even use Twitter and I'm still aware of her, so apparently the analogy holds up.
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Where on Earth have you got the bizarre idea that there is a drive to abolish the Police
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Well yeah so am I and I've never used Twitter either. She was on a mainstream tv show and was a broadcaster on LBC so known for things other than her her hateful comments online.
I don't think you reasonably expect to not hear from people you don't like. That's not how the world works, even if it would be quite nice.
I'm guessing arrogance has a price.
Where on Earth have you got the bizarre idea that there is a drive to abolish the Police
From people saying they want to abolish the police? (And, yes, there are people saying that)
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She should look on the bright side, at least now she won't keep getting publicly humiliated:
LOL I love twitter for some of the take downs.
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Really? In Germany or in the UK or more plausibly in the USA (in which case I really couldn't give a flying fish - they are insane - and carry guns
).When they (whoever they are) have abolished the Police, what do they suggest should replace them? The Army? Private security personnel or just allow anarchy reign?
To be frank, I think that you and @mmj_uk have at best read some extreme posts on social meeja.