alchresearch Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 and who exactly is supposed to decide whats offensive and what is not? Its utterly ridiculous. Do you honestly not know the difference or are you just arguing for the sake of it? Remind me to pop round to the funeral of one of your loved ones and let me crack off a few jokes and see how funny or offensive you find that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Do you honestly not know the difference or are you just arguing for the sake of it? Remind me to pop round to the funeral of one of your loved ones and let me crack off a few jokes and see how funny or offensive you find that? I'm offended by this post, JAIL HIM! Don't you think 3 months prison for a bad taste joke cut n pasted from another internet site is just a little harsh? Especially when thieves walk away with a caution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodmally Posted October 9, 2012 Author Share Posted October 9, 2012 Over the top punishment if you ask me. I was reading on here last night that someone had been assaulted and had their car vandalised - the crim got an £80 fine. Some guy makes a post on Facebook and gets 3 months inside?!?! People do know that he just re-cycled a joke from sickipedia? Exactly! That reinforces my point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Do you honestly not know the difference or are you just arguing for the sake of it? Remind me to pop round to the funeral of one of your loved ones and let me crack off a few jokes and see how funny or offensive you find that? That would just be bad manners. At my grandmother's funeral last Friday, my brother quipped, "At least people are dying in the right order again." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightrider Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Do you honestly not know the difference or are you just arguing for the sake of it? Remind me to pop round to the funeral of one of your loved ones and let me crack off a few jokes and see how funny or offensive you find that? I believe in free speech, and I am afraid the price of that is people can say extremely offensive things. Once we start saying some things are off limits its a slippery slope. Some comments or jokes will be close to the line so that one person will be very upset and others are not (I can think of certain extremist religous people this applies to who would love to use laws exactly like this to restrict what we can say). Starting down this road of prosecuting people for what they say (unless inciting others to do something illegal, which we already have laws about) is a terrible idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 The police have to implement the law. If lots of people complained and he broke the law, it has to act. "Jokes" about dead kids, "Chinks", "Pakkis" and "*******" belong in the shameful past. People who can't deserve to be punished. Excellent point. The internet and the development of social media is developing faster than our social reasoning can handle. Just as an example, twenty years ago hardcore pornography was not even top shelf stuff, you simply couldn't access it unless you got on a ferry to Amsterdam. Now it's something our children can view easily with little in the way of moderation and we've yet to see the outcome of that exposure as they become adults. On the face of it the sentence appears excessive but legislators have to be robust against the use of the internet in this way otherwise we'll find the ultimate knee jerk reaction will be restrictions by the government placed on sites we can visit and the kind of content we can view. We have to be responsible in how we use our freedoms otherwise someone in jackboots will arrive and restrict them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil-minx92 Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 The police have to implement the law. If lots of people complained and he broke the law, it has to act. "Jokes" about dead kids, "Chinks", "Pakkis" and "*******" belong in the shameful past. People who can't deserve to be punished. Clearly we need to take some police of the beat and form a department to scour facebook and round up the thousands of people who have said something distasteful. Better build a few new prisons too. Also, football fans who chant their hateful chants about other teams supporters. They should be jailed too! Get a grip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drone Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Facebook will collapse soon anyway so don't worry about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Does this add fuel to the fire? Someone posts derogatory comments about dead soldiers - gets a community order??? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19883828 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 I believe in free speech, and I am afraid the price of that is people can say extremely offensive things. Once we start saying some things are off limits its a slippery slope. Some comments or jokes will be close to the line so that one person will be very upset and others are not (I can think of certain extremist religous people this applies to who would love to use laws exactly like this to restrict what we can say). Starting down this road of prosecuting people for what they say (unless inciting others to do something illegal, which we already have laws about) is a terrible idea. But you're missing the point the poster made..what would you do if he arrived at the funeral of your loved ones shouting offensive abuse? There'd probably be a riot wouldn't there? The offender in the OP had already been visited at home by an angry mob, without censure there would be a free for all in terms of breaches of the peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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