quick read this.....
 

**** me!!!! i could say more stuff in North Korea than on here, obviously whoever deletes these posts is american cos you think you rule the world, get this, we had an empire before you lot!!!

Quick read this definition before it gets deleted and i get sent packing in an orange suit to guantanamo, george bush has got you all believing your own hype!

Freedom of speech is the concept of being able to speak freely without censorship. It is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies. The right to freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human rights instruments, notably under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, although implementation remains lacking in many countries. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes preferred, since the right is not confined to verbal speech but is understood to protect any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

Are you Abu Hamza in disguise?

I bet you've been inciting racial hatred, soliciting mass murder and encouraging terrorism... or were you really naughty and call someone a name?

Freedom of speech applies in public and not on a privately owned message board, where the owner decides what they want and what they don't.

my infraction means all my posts go into announcments, i'll make a ****ing hell of an announcment if they want, i'll drop in two people on this board who are gay and no-one knows hardly......

Where's the law for this? Thats like saying someone can murder somebody, as long as they are in their own house.

freedom of speech applies wherever. Denying it is a violation of a person's human rights. Moderation on the other hand is fair, if it is undertaken in relation to policy or Terms and Conditions.

I think that is an extreme. I don't think there are so many laws regarding the Internet like that, but if Peter set rules on this board as to what is allowed then if he doesn't like it he can remove it.

So if a person starts a thread 'I hate black people' it's ok then, because it's free speech? :roll:

its an opinion which is to be respected, everyone has a freedom to love and hate who they want and they have a freedom to express these opinions, its your persoanl opinion if you disagree, so if you say you disagree then why should you be allowed to express that when thats al the other person has done...

Racism is a crime.

As I said though this is a privately owned board, and as such the owner can dictate what they do or do not want on their board, which is why the mods presumably deleted a thread of yours in which you were posting opinions which Peter has told them not to allow.

the owner can of course do anything he wants.Whether he is right or wrong is a different matter :)

Who is to decide what is right or wrong?

Governments apparantly. Or the country with the biggest guns :)

I think it can be worth pushing the boundaries on issues. If no-one ever challenged authority we'd never really get anywhere.

That said, on a board like this it truly is just up to whoever owns it to say what is allowed. If you don't like it, you don't have to post.

that sounds like a post to close a topic with :)

Yet you replied anyway, so the topic hasn't ended :p

I've said it before, but ..... the concept of freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to infringe on other people's personal freedoms

Must have been a hell of an original post that got deleted to require two threads on freedom of speech.

And most Americans defend freedom of speech - it's only our government that restricts it :(

Kathleen