Posts Tagged by Al Murray
Tom Daley’s Twitter abuse: policing Twitter undermines freedom of speech
| August 1, 2012 | Posted by Jeremy Dobson under culture, national |
When Tim Berners-Lee appeared at the sublime Olympics opening ceremony, one salient phrase (referring to the web) circled around the 70,000 seats: “THIS IS FOR EVERYONE.” That means the Twitter “trolls” and cretins too. On July 30th, when Olympic diver Tom Daley marginally missed out on a medal, one such cretin under the Twitter name @Rileyy_69 decided to rile Daley with the hateful message: “You let your dad down i hope you know that.” A disgusting thing to say from a terrible person; but, if we are serious about protecting free speech, he does have the right to say it. Freedom of speech is an absolute right; it can’t be tossed aside or diluted when somebody says something nasty. Politicians often… more
