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Originally Posted by Paul
Do you read what you write ?
If its legal, there is no reason at all to prevent it being posted.
As I have pointed out many many times now "offensive" is subjective.
Anyone can say they think something "offensive" simply because they disagree with it (or even no reason at all).
Just because some over sensitive snowflake says they take "offence" at something does not mean people should not be able to post.
If its legal, well ... then its legal.
No one forces anyone to read anything, people can already choose not to read things, or choose not to use social media at all.
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I read and understand what I write within the confines of my abilities- no need for sarcasm in the circumstances. My facilitator thinks that you've misunderstood what was said.
The proposal is to prevent the sight of something that an individual may find offensive or upsetting, not stop it from being posted. For example a victim of child sex abuse may find discussion of this triggering and/or upsetting.
Whilst it would be unreasonable, almost criminal, to prevent discussion of such an important subject it'rs perfectly reasonable to expect some people to find it too much to cope with.
In short, legal posts would be masked
for them Referring to such people as "snowflakes' is, at best, unhelpful.
It's not correct that people can always choose to stay away from material that they find offensive, as the material they find offensive may be unexpected. For example, this is why warnings are given at the start of television programmes.
A programme about child sex abuse would obviously be easy to avoid, but it might unexpectedly turn up during a soap.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Of course you should be allowed to block certain posters or certain material you don’t want to see (if that is even possible), but the proposal goes much further than that.
Freedom of speech is important in a democracy, and you ban it at your peril.
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I'm not sure how they'll mask legal material that some find offensive. I imagine that they will use key words in the case of written text. They have the technology to identify certain images*, so I suppose tihey'll use this too.
*I recently watched a YouTube video where a man bought a new mobile phone and couldn't manage to transfer some illegal images from the old to the new one.
He was caught because the material was picked up when he tried to email them to himself.