Thread: [Update] Ofcom raps Channel 4 over Frankie Boyle's Harvey Price 'joke'
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Old 11-12-2010, 21:00   #62
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Re: Katie Price complains to Ofcom over Frankie Boyle gag
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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
I'll pick up the baton,

Communities may well come to a concensus about what actions or words they deem offensive and within their community they may agree to not undertake such offensive deeds.

But that doesn't mean they can push those ideals onto wider society.
Why not?

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Originally Posted by punky View Post
It doesn't matter if anyone thinks it's funny or not but Frankie Boyle delivering a what essentially is a private-performance. He deserves to do so without interference. whether people like it or not shouldn't impact that.

She can ask C4 for an apology. That's fine, and its a PR issue which i'm sure they'll gush over. What would reporting to OfCom do? Can the ban re-transmission of the material? Fine Boyle? OfCom have a duty to address material which I guess would be illegal of which Boyle's material here shouldn't be.
This was not, in any context that any reasonable person could imagine, a private performance.
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