There was shock on the Comment is Free comment boards today as it suddenly dawned on commenters that the much lauded "freedom of speech" doesn't exist.
The revelation was sparked by one commenter, 'peach1967', who said "Guys, I don't know if you've noticed, but it's not good or allowed to say whatever you want... I mean, if you went up to a policeman, and called him a twat, I don't think that would be ok".
At first, commenters such as 'fennelbag' deplored this view, claiming the state was "turning facist" and "the right are winning". Later, as more and people began to realise that if everyone was allowed to say whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, things would be a bit of a mess, sadness descended on the messageboard. 'nightshirt57' spoke for the whole community when he said "well, now I've realised this, it sort of takes away the point of my life. I suppose I'll have to try and eke out an existence criticizing people's less that perfect grammar rather than taking it upon myself to defend something that not only doesn't exist, but wouldn;t work even if it did."
The Guardian gave us a statement saying "we will be sending out help and advice to all our messageboard members. We have known this a long time, and have been dreading the day our readers find out. We hope they can get through it together."
The revelation was sparked by one commenter, 'peach1967', who said "Guys, I don't know if you've noticed, but it's not good or allowed to say whatever you want... I mean, if you went up to a policeman, and called him a twat, I don't think that would be ok".
At first, commenters such as 'fennelbag' deplored this view, claiming the state was "turning facist" and "the right are winning". Later, as more and people began to realise that if everyone was allowed to say whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, things would be a bit of a mess, sadness descended on the messageboard. 'nightshirt57' spoke for the whole community when he said "well, now I've realised this, it sort of takes away the point of my life. I suppose I'll have to try and eke out an existence criticizing people's less that perfect grammar rather than taking it upon myself to defend something that not only doesn't exist, but wouldn;t work even if it did."
The Guardian gave us a statement saying "we will be sending out help and advice to all our messageboard members. We have known this a long time, and have been dreading the day our readers find out. We hope they can get through it together."
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