Be very careful who you offend

[SammyInnit]

Seems like only yesterday I was being told freedom of speech hasn't been affected by the way the MetPol now judge a hate crime.

Today Mark Meechan was convicted of being ''grossly offensive" under the communications act.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....me/nazi-dog-joker-convicted-hate-12220027.amp

https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/976115287991910400?s=20

 

[noseall]

Thread title should read: Be careful how you offend.

You can still offend people without breaking the law - if you want to.

 

[SammyInnit]

Thread title should read: Be careful how you offend.

You can still offend people without breaking the law - if you want to.

My right to offend you shouldn't end where the 'law' (as much as you struggle to realise the concept of a slippery slope) begins.

You don't have a right to not be offended.

 

[noseall]

My right to offend you shouldn't end where the 'law' begins.

Correct.
However, the rozzers and the CPS may see it differently.

You have the right to be offensive if you wish. Just don't break the law. Simple.

 

[noseall]

You don't have a right to not be offended.

WTF does this mean?

 

[SammyInnit]

However, the rozzers and the CPS may see it differently.

That's the point.

WTF does this mean?

It means if I call you a **** it could well offend you and that's though ****.

 

[noseall]

It means if I call you a **** it could well offend you and that's though ****.

Eh?

 

[noseall]

You don't have a right to not be offended.

I don't have a right NOT to be offended? WTF?

Try again.

 

[SammyInnit]

Eh?

I'd imagine that happens to you a lot.

I don't have a right NOT to be offended? WTF?

Try again.

Salman Rushdie put it this way:

 

[noseall]

Salman Rushdie put it this way

Fanatical Muslim nutters will want to behead you if you diss their prophet. What has that got to do with UK freedom of speech?

 

[SammyInnit]

What has that got to do with UK freedom of speech?

If you've not understood the point by now I'm not going to continue to waste my time.

 

[noseall]

I'm not going to continue to waste my time.

Don't bother going into comedy either because your jokes are shi t.

 

[SirGalahad]

Freedom of speech is not freedom from responsibility and FOS has limits.

How someone perceives something is important.

 

[JohnD]

Seems like only yesterday I was being told freedom of speech hasn't been affected

What do you think "freedom of speech is? What do you think it means? What do you think it replaced?

Do you know what "seditious libel" was?

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

I don't have a right NOT to be offended? WTF?

Try again.

Maybe sammyinit thinks you do not have the right not be burgled, or not to be a victim of assault, or not to be murdered.
In fact, we do not have the right not to be a victim of any crime!