O/T:- Facebook bans free speech

[navypie]

When I get up there and meet my grandad again ( can't remember though, he died when I was a nipper) , that all he went through was for nothing

[jackal2]

To be fair, neither your Grandad nor mine, who died in 2008, would have known what Facebook was, so better to leave them in blissful ignorance.

My Grandad fought against the Nazis and was a POW for the best part of four years, so it's fair to say he wasn't in favour of racism, but neither would he support his efforts being twisted in the other direction by a bunch of Marxists as a means of suppressing free speech. Somewhere between these warped, extreme philosophies lies a genuinely tolerant world where people can express their own opinion and accept the right of others to do the same, even if the cost is to find a small minority of those opinions uncomfortable or offensive on occasion.

[navypie]

To be fair, neither your Grandad nor mine, who died in 2008, would have known what Facebook was, so better to leave them in blissful ignorance.

My Grandad fought against the Nazis and was a POW for the best part of four years, so it's fair to say he wasn't in favour of racism, but neither would he support his efforts being twisted in the other direction by a buncStah of Marxists as a means of suppressing free speech. Somewhere between these warped, extreme philosophies lies a genuinely tolerant world where people can express their own opinion and accept the right of others to do the same, even if the cost is to find a small minority of those opinions uncomfortable or offensive on occasion.

Stating the obvious regarding Jackman. I've said before, my grandad was one of the last to be taken of the beaches, he heard later that his brother didn't make it . I really hope it wasn't for fcuk all.

Just edit that. My grandad joined the Army in 1936 to escape the Durham mines. He was Labour throught and through.

[Bartlett's Dust]

This sounds like a line from The Sun.

[navypie]

This sounds like a line from The Sun.

Which part, my grandad escaping from Dunkirk or the Durham mines?

[60YearsAPie]

I really hope it wasn't for fcuk all.

My grandad fought on the Somme in World War I. My dad was in the Chindits and fought the Japanese in the jungles of Burma in World War II. They both came back and saw for themselves, before they died old men, that it was worth the effort. They’d be saddened to see how the generations after them have allowed things to get into the state they currently are.

[SwalePie]

What has Facebook done now?

[jackal2]

What has Facebook done now?

As far as I know they haven't banned free speech, but apparently they're coming under a lot of pressure from various angles to impose greater regulations and labels on content, especially political content. Bizarrely, I'm sure at least some of those calling for greater regulation of some things on social media are the same people opposing greater regulation on other things. The world is going mad, but then again what's new?

Time to lie down in a darkened room and listen to the Joy of Painting. Here's to 'happy little trees', but not of the Forest variety.

[magpiekev]

I don't know what navy is referring to, but I was in a Facebook group for ska skinhead that was closed down. The irony wasn't lost on me.

[navypie]

I don't know what navy is referring to, but I was in a Facebook group for ska skinhead that was closed down. The irony wasn't lost on me.

You have your answer. Left or right, we all had the right to free speech until the BLM movement was hijacked by the Marxists.