cryrst
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Just until it gets taken down.
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Censorship and Social Media
- Topic starter eaglesdare
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Just until it gets taken down.
Wisbech Eagle
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That he was an idiot is well established. He is hardly alone in allowing his personal to mess up his professional.
Teddy Eagle
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Yes but he was an idiot in whose judgement we were expected to put complete trust.
Wisbech Eagle
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The people we were expected to trust were the experts who appeared alongside the politicians.
I didn’t trust either Johnson or Hancock, and have ample reason for that.
Teddy Eagle
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We elect these people to take decisions for us. That's where the trust is supposed to be.
Wisbech Eagle
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We trust them to hire experts and then listen to them before taking those decisions.
Just as we do ourselves.
I have a leak in the roof of one of my rental properties. I am hiring a roofer to fix it.
Teddy Eagle
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How did that work out with Johnson and Hancock?
Wisbech Eagle
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Pretty well for the country as a whole, given the appalling circumstances we faced.
Badly for them.
Teddy Eagle
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And yet you didn't trust either of them.
Wisbech Eagle
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Not in many ways but they weren’t driving the response. They were fronting the political delivery of it.
Teddy Eagle
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That's alright then. Covid aside they both did a bang up job.
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Wisbech Eagle
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Johnson in particular was an awful PM. Self serving with a populist approach who repeatedly lied.
The only thing I give credit for was in listening to expert advice during Covid.
ASCPFC
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He was rather a let down to both sides of the political spectrum.
Teddy Eagle
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During which time he was hospitalised with it. Maybe he didn't listen closely enough.
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Apollofuzz
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Pub customers could be banned from talking about contentious issues such as trans rights
The rule change could lead to excessive restrictions on free speech as businesses attempt to avoid potential legal issues
www.gbnews.com
Pub landlords to be turned into ‘banter police’ under reforms to workers’ rights
Fears free speech could come under attack, not just in bars but also universities, as Government plans to extend employment laws
www.telegraph.co.uk
If you have the right to be offended by overhearing a private conversation. I should have the right not to give a Sh*t.
United Kingdom of North Korea. Bowls Club members better be carefulPub customers could be banned from talking about contentious issues such as trans rights
The rule change could lead to excessive restrictions on free speech as businesses attempt to avoid potential legal issues
Pub landlords to be turned into ‘banter police’ under reforms to workers’ rights
Fears free speech could come under attack, not just in bars but also universities, as Government plans to extend employment laws
If you have the right to be offended by overhearing a private conversation. I should have the right not to give a Sh*t.
Forest Hillbilly
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People are being assimilated (by suggestion in the media) that the population should consider themselves as members of the Thought Police to self-regulate, and snitch on each other when "wrong think" is done.
Orwell was decades ahead of his time.
Orwell was decades ahead of his time.
Eagleman13
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thats the thing tho. What is wrong? Are we all going to be given a template from HoC to adhere to? What you think is wrong i, & others may not & vice-versa. There's going to be a few(lot) of black eyes/fat lips/bloodied noses if this is rolled out.
Wisbech Eagle
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On a personal level he was an idiot. But that’s true of him in many areas. He did though, or was forced to, follow public health advice and not just let the virus rip, which seemed to be his instinct.
Wisbech Eagle
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A couple of stories being spun in the right wing press and the usual subjects go off on another crusade.Pub customers could be banned from talking about contentious issues such as trans rights
The rule change could lead to excessive restrictions on free speech as businesses attempt to avoid potential legal issues
Pub landlords to be turned into ‘banter police’ under reforms to workers’ rights
Fears free speech could come under attack, not just in bars but also universities, as Government plans to extend employment laws
If you have the right to be offended by overhearing a private conversation. I should have the right not to give a Sh*t.
Surely if you, a pub landlord, or anyone else, overheard people planning a crime of any sort, but especially terrorism or child abuse, then you would want them to report it?
What is suggested here isn’t that but it’s no different to the responsibilities that every employer has. Ensuring that others don’t harass or abuse staff is quite normal. You see signs up warning this won’t be tolerated in many settings. What’s so different about a pub? It won’t restrict genuine banter, however crude or political it might be, of that I am certain.
It’s only the right wing press who want you to get angry. Again.