RIP Free Speech

[Squaredy]

We have had arguments on AT in the past about free speech.  If anyone still thinks it exists in the UK perhaps they haven’t heard about Graham Linehan.  I am rubbish at pasting links, but a quick google will uncover the facts.

 

What he was arrested earlier this month for writing on X is this: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act.  Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”

 

Even the establishment seem to have realised this should never have resulted in his arrest, and he is now suing the MET police.  Initially his bail conditions even prohibited him from using X; but this has now been challenged.  The police actually thought this was within their power though!

[trigger_andy]

Free speech for me but not for thee. If you're a rational human being you no longer fit in. You deserve to be canceled for your common sense approach to life. 

 

Get with the times!

[pie eater pete]

I feel far too many of the idiot politicians knocking about nowadays have even lost the ability to think for themselves.  They just go along with whatever fad or such is happening and damn everyone else.

[Mark J]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

We have had arguments on AT in the past about free speech.  If anyone still thinks it exists in the UK perhaps they haven’t heard about Graham Linehan.  I am rubbish at pasting links, but a quick google will uncover the facts.

 

What he was arrested earlier this month for writing on X is this: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act.  Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”

 

Even the establishment seem to have realised this should never have resulted in his arrest, and he is now suing the MET police.  Initially his bail conditions even prohibited him from using X; but this has now been challenged.  The police actually thought this was within their power though!

Yet, here you are, posting your thoughts openly, and nobody has come along to stifle them, or arrest you. Is free speech really dead? Or is it a narrative to stir up trouble? Not by you personally, just in general.

By the way, I agree that anyone with balls, behaving in a bad way around women, should be punched in the balls - at the very least.  

Edited 3 hours ago by Mark J

[trigger_andy]

16 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Yet, here you are, posting your thoughts openly, and nobody has come along to stifle them, or arrest you. Is free speech really dead? Or is it narrative to stir up trouble?

By the way, I agree that anyone with balls, behaving in a bad way around women, should be punched in the balls - at the very least.  

Interestingly I’ve had the ban hammer dropped on me here more than anyone. A significant portion of those bans has been responding and repeating your own claims of SA and referring to and voicing an opinion on pictures you posted up of your own council flat. 
 

No one is allowed to post thoughts openly. You know this more than anyone Komrad. 

Edited 3 hours ago by trigger_andy

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, pie eater pete said:

I feel far too many of the idiot politicians knocking about nowadays have even lost the ability to think for themselves.  They just go along with whatever fad or such is happening and damn everyone else.

Pretty much how we ended up going down the whole trans woke pure bs route. 

 

[Mark J]

24 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Interestingly I’ve had the ban hammer dropped on me here more than anyone. A significant portion of those bans has been responding and repeating your own claims of SA and referring to and voicing an opinion on pictures you posted up of your own council flat. 
 

No one is allowed to post thoughts openly. You know this more than anyone Komrad. 

[BillQ]

Promoting violence against someone being in the wrong place rather than using the relevant law....

[trigger_andy]

6 minutes ago, Mark J said:

We were discussing what comeback you could possibly front. But nobody had an image of beer. 

 

In many circles that could be considered an admission of deferral. A form of surrender. Would you like to clarify why you refuse to engage in a discussion revolving around free speech when it involves you personally?

 

Again, is free speech dead?     

[trigger_andy]

7 minutes ago, BillQ said:

Promoting violence against someone being in the wrong place rather than using the relevant law....

Is it ok to promote violence against someone being in the right place? Instructions unclear.