No, but I am against sending messages directly to someone with the intent to cause distress and anxiety.
That's great. However, it's a pretty big jump to advocating arrest of anybody who insults anybody else. I have no knowledge of you personally, but if you tell me that you have never insulted someone with the intent of causing distress or anxiety then I flat out won't believe you. Nor would I believe anybody else who said it.
It is not my job to find the laws you are criticising. It is yours.
I found it, linked to it and quoted from it. Just because you're now finding it doesn't back up your argument is not my problem.
What you linked to speaks of hate and grossly offensive not mocking. Mocking is your word as you try and reduce the severity of the crimes.
Ooh, the seriousness of the crimes. Somebody was very offended. I'll tell you what, go outside right now, find someone who is religious and say, "
Anyone gullible enough to believe in a beardy bloke in the sky, his bastard son and a holey rapist absolutely deserves derision. There is no evidence at all for any of that crap."
When you're arrested, say, "Well, whilst I fully support people saying what I just said, and indeed subscribe to a website where multiple people post similar things every day without a peep of protest from me, I am very happy that I am being arrested on account of speaking 'hate' and 'gross offence'."
And seeing as you neither know nor understand the law, I'll tell you that it's not a case of online insults being seen by the authorities as lesser crimes than face-to-face because, as I posted earlier, they are deemed to be of the same severity.
(And please, before other Abbadon's jump in, I am
not speaking out against what Abbadon wrote, or even the offensive claptrap that MikeG wrote. The opposite; I am standing up for their right to post such things without being arrested and carted off to a cell.
It's difficult to believe that I am forced to argue against for free speech on a site such as this. It's quite telling that the left have now usurped the position of the old right, who were all for free speech unless they disagreed with it.
Your parody is showing how the law works here. Insulting is not enough. Very insulting is. very insulting is not the same as mocking, it is far more severe.
Yes, we know, you think it acceptable to be criminalised for saying something very offensive. 1984.
The law has set a line which is the speech has to be hateful or grossly offensive. This forum has set a similar line.
I had no idea I could be charged and jailed for breaking the Ts&Cs. I will request that the mods highlight that particular portion of the text because I feel it's quite important.
Did you know that free speech is not the right to say anything and everything you want without fear of repercussions from those you have set out to grossly offend or stir up hatred against?
Listen to yourself. And it's not just the fact you haven't a clue what free speech actually is, it's that you're more than happy to tolerate it when it suits you and see people jailed for it when it doesn't.
Indeed, baron is keeping his speech here moderated because he knows if he turns it up to hate or grossly offensive, he will face sanction from the moderators.
Will he now condemn the moderators and this forum for that?
Quite incredible that you haven't got a clue what free speech means, or the difference between a private forum moderating its members and the police enforcing legal regulation on the general public. I expect most senior officers in the police also have this cognitive failing.
