Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post
Who gives a shit. It’s just speech. I know you guys crack down on speech but our constitution protected speech as the know it is the bedrock of freedom.
Well people DO get arrested for jokes on the internet....look at Mark Meechan (Count Dankula). He's more of a lefty than anything else and people branded him a Nazi for teaching his girlfriend's dog to do "heil"....do people think "Oh shit the Nazi's have a pug, there's no bloody stopping them now!"


And if that's the case when is John Cleese going to be arrested for his Hitler schtick on Fawlty Towers? Is there a statute of limitations on Nazi jokes?
The thing is anything goes in comedy or at least it did. I was watching Gervais last night mocking the name change of The Spastics Society to Scope. Now obviously Ricky Gervais has nothing personally against anyone with something like Cerebral Palsy. It is just a comedy routine. Sure feelings might get 'hurt', but at the end of the day a JOKE is a JOKE. If you don't want to listen, then don't listen to Ricky Gervais. It's a big world with lots of speech out there. Hate speech law is something that needs to be abolished. As long as someone is not threatening violence or outright telling porkies, then you should be free to say what you want in the crucible of ideas.