Bad taste = criminal offence?
Discussion
Examples of people being cautioned or charged with posting offensive (subjective) tweets or messages online seem to be getting more and more commonplace.
At what point does a joke or free speech become something you can be cautioned by the police for?
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/regional-news/c...
Its utter madness that the police are wasting time on nonsence like this and is only surpassed by the madness that they are actually able to investigate such things in the first place.
At what point does a joke or free speech become something you can be cautioned by the police for?
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/regional-news/c...
Its utter madness that the police are wasting time on nonsence like this and is only surpassed by the madness that they are actually able to investigate such things in the first place.
"Bad taste" jokes used to come out so quickly in the past and would spread around via word of mouth. Then it changed to txt messages and now via social media. Any major event you can thing of will have a joke attached to it, rightly or wrongly that’s what people do, it’s nothing new.
I don’t ever remember hearing stories of people being cautioned in the first two methods of distribution, social media has changed all that and these things easily reach the “professionally offended” where in the past you’d know who of your mates you could talk to without getting in trouble, you can't do that with social media!
I don’t ever remember hearing stories of people being cautioned in the first two methods of distribution, social media has changed all that and these things easily reach the “professionally offended” where in the past you’d know who of your mates you could talk to without getting in trouble, you can't do that with social media!
It's gone too far now.
Yes it's in bad taste, but it's not offensive unless you're directly effected by the accident - some people are professionally offended - far, far past 'inciting' anything - it seems these days even the most innocent of gaffs will become a massive issue when the Professionally Offended hear about it, usually 3rd hand.
I personally hate people being PC - I'd much prefer people spoke their mind and were open to debate and defence of their views, debate is good, debate can change people's minds - hiding behind the lies of 'political correctness' achieves nothing but saving people from having to face real life.
In this case it's clear to me the offender is a bit of a knob, people who know him can decide themselves if they think he's a being offensive and respond - but if he's censored he carries on with his views.
Yes it's in bad taste, but it's not offensive unless you're directly effected by the accident - some people are professionally offended - far, far past 'inciting' anything - it seems these days even the most innocent of gaffs will become a massive issue when the Professionally Offended hear about it, usually 3rd hand.
I personally hate people being PC - I'd much prefer people spoke their mind and were open to debate and defence of their views, debate is good, debate can change people's minds - hiding behind the lies of 'political correctness' achieves nothing but saving people from having to face real life.
In this case it's clear to me the offender is a bit of a knob, people who know him can decide themselves if they think he's a being offensive and respond - but if he's censored he carries on with his views.
Claudia Skies said:
dudleybloke said:
Thought crime is the worst offence you can do these days. Its bloody pathetic.
What? Worse than googling Al Qaeda and having your name permanently added to the list at GCHQ?"Don't tell him your name Pike!"
If the gray state rears its ugly head at me I'll fart in its general direction.
What pisses me off is that (if I remember correctly) the police now spend something like 50% of their time chasing up complaints about facebook and tw@tter. I might have that wrong but even if it's 10% it's ludicrous - "he called me a wker and said he was going to bum my dog". Oh, ffs, grow up! Then we wonder why there's no police on the streets.
In fact here we go....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27949674
"Social media 'at least half' of calls passed to front-line police"
Strewth!
In fact here we go....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27949674
"Social media 'at least half' of calls passed to front-line police"
Strewth!
Type R Tom said:
"Bad taste" jokes used to come out so quickly in the past and would spread around via word of mouth. Then it changed to txt messages and now via social media. Any major event you can thing of will have a joke attached to it, rightly or wrongly that’s what people do, it’s nothing new.
I don’t ever remember hearing stories of people being cautioned in the first two methods of distribution, social media has changed all that and these things easily reach the “professionally offended” where in the past you’d know who of your mates you could talk to without getting in trouble, you can't do that with social media!
There's a difference between forwarding/telling a joke amongst people you know and publishing it for all to see thoughI don’t ever remember hearing stories of people being cautioned in the first two methods of distribution, social media has changed all that and these things easily reach the “professionally offended” where in the past you’d know who of your mates you could talk to without getting in trouble, you can't do that with social media!
In the olden days you might forward that gary glitter joke to your mates or tell it down the pub but you wouldn't stop outside primary schools and tell random mothers; thats what publishing it via twitter etc does.
Not commenting on the right or wrongs of either his "crime" or the response... although some people do still think of online as a consequence-free environment
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