19-01-2015, 23:45
(This post was last modified: 19-01-2015, 23:58 by St Charles Owl.)
(19-01-2015, 23:38)Lord Snooty Wrote: Well Charlie Hebdo wouldn't have got away with it in this country. We're more civilised than the French.
And freedom of speech and freedom of the press is bollocks. Nobody should have the right to be so offensive.
Completely agree, but where do we draw a line as to what is offensive and what isn't?? And who makes that decision on our behalf?? Unfortunately we live in a society where it is very easy to claim offence at something someone says where is reality a little bit of common sense could be applied and the offence could be shown up as being fake.
The Sun is absolutely spot on when it says that those opposed to Page 3 don't buy the paper, but it is still the best selling daily rag in the UK. As a paper it will only disappear if the public stop buying it, but Page 3 will be back if their sales drop.
(19-01-2015, 23:39)Amelia Chaffinch Wrote: The difference is that the people running the no more page 3 campaign have done it the correct way. They haven't gone in there with machine guns to stop it. If the opposition didn't like Charlie Hebdo, they should have protested in an acceptable way.
Absolutely correct Amelia!!
That was also the interesting thing about the CH situation though, people really only spoke about it as an afront to free speech!! We as a society seem a bit sanitized to the violence and that we expect extreme Muslims to "protest" in this way, so that fact getss lost in the uproar over an attack on free speech.