Get rid of aisling o loughlin from Expose!!!!

My name is URL wrote: »

I get what you're saying, and do agree to a certain point. I mean you'd need to be hard pressed to bother going to the hassle of setting a group up in the first place, but I don't think there should be any legal or moral reaon why somebody can't do it if they so wish

Maybe, but if there's the sniff of money and gloating and control and the case is put to some out of touch superannuated judge who doesnt know what the internet is(oh that's where they have pron and kiddie fiddlers), then the defence of "free speech"(which we don't have nearly as much as we like to think) could land you with a large fine and legal bill.

Wolflikeme wrote: »

I agree also. I'm just trying to look at it objectively as I can. I don't think constraints are warranted (far from it!). I'm just looking at it in 'why' kind of way.

I reckon as with all this stuff, follow the money. You could say what you liked when it was a bunch of nerds discussing WoW. They "didnt matter" or were even noticed by the mainstream. But when the mainstream is buying and selling the very stock of the internet and making billions on the back of it, they will want control over that. The next thing I predict that will be hit is copyright. You hotlink to a paid for page or post text etc from that page and you could be hit for copyright theft*. A poster here does that already when he converts a paid for page to a jpg for is all to read. Very grey area. Then you could have issues over copyright on sites like this.

And I understand if she's a bit hurt by it. She went about it all wrong and pretending to be some sort of 'anit-internet bully' campaigner is bollocks!

Oh yea but that guff has currency among your Joe Duffy/Gerry Ryan housewives, oul wans and oul fella types. They dont fully understand the new media and as a result are suspicious or downright belligerent about it. They see "that lovely woman" being insulted and bullied and they'll conflate that with facebook bullying that resulted in suicides and the moral decay of porn and "kiddie fiddlers use the web and they show them how to take druuugz y'know" and you have a nice little perfect storm building up. Even among relatively rational if ill informed people. You see more of those doom stories than the real good communities like this can do too.

Those in positions of power who are more likely to be put under the silicon microscope will be only too happy to fan those flames and bring in legislation to deal with it.

We forget that majority of those on this website and those like it are more informed and comfortable with this medium than the majority outside of it. Even the "Ive got pics of my fat kids on facebook" Johnnies. We're the equivalent of people who like and understand cars. They're the equivalent of people who use cars from A to B and making buying decisions on the colour of the seats. The latter think all crashes are caused by "souped up cars" and the authorities will follow them on that.



*not a lawyer bod so the terms are likely arseways.