Censorship

[NickFitz]

Actually IMHO Paddy's parody was ******* hilarious.

To be fair to Paddy, I only skimmed through it - it was one of those fast-moving threads that seemed like it wouldn't survive for very long, and I wanted to be in at the kill

[TykeMerc]

I was out and missed it all, shame.

Do I take it that we will be free of spamming about that damn SKA thing in future? Fine with me.

[d000hg]

Given what was written and the fact that it was attached to a link to a specific person, it could probably have been construed as libellous. It didn't have the justification of being particularly funny either (not that being funny would help in court). Sticking a footnote on it saying "I don't really mean that person who I've linked to up there, honest" wouldn't wash either. Best to be rid of it IMHO.

The original statements were all removed, leaving a confusing but uncontroversial remnant apart from a link to a university web-page which was created to be seen.

[TimberWolf]

So was AtW terribly upset by whatever happened?

[NotAllThere]

After the self-editing, it was just a so you've not missed anything. ( I read the whole thing, before finding another mod had deleted it - believe me, it was tedious ).

Yes, it's censorship. So what?

[MarillionFan]

After the self-editing, it was just a so you've not missed anything. ( I read the whole thing, before finding another mod had deleted it - believe me, it was tedious ).

Yes, it's censorship. So what?

I sent the whole uneditted thread to wilileaks. The Guardian will be publishing it in June. Expect an uprising to come to Birmingham soon.

[minestrone]

As the post was quite clearly made as a joke then AtW would have been wasting his time suing anyone, also the high court has ruled that comments on bulletin boards are to be taken as slander and not libel. It would have got thrown out after 2 minutes leaving him with a hefty legal bill and another avenue to take the piss out of him.

He should have know that what he posted on a friday evening was not going to be greatly respected by the audience and he could have handled the whole thing far better.

[Paddy]

As the post was quite clearly made as a joke then AtW would have been wasting his time suing anyone, also the high court has ruled that comments on bulletin boards are to be taken as slander and not libel. It would have got thrown out after 2 minutes leaving him with a hefty legal bill and another avenue to take the piss out of him.

He should have know that what he posted on a friday evening was not going to be greatly respected by the audience and he could have handled the whole thing far better.

Unfortunately solicitors would only be too happy to take £10k off of AtW and another £30k over the following months before he realised he was not getting anywhere. Furthermore, the posts were humorous and not malicious and I do not know of any similar cases in which anyone even bothered to spent £30 on a solicitor’s letter. AtWs boast that he spent £10k on solicitors last year does not impress me in the slightest.

[minestrone]

In the last 3 months the girlfriend's place has had to pay 40k in legal fees to get rid of another partner in the business. His boasting of 10k in a year is actually pretty funny and shows up how small his business is.

Anyway I laughed out loud when I read your post.

[doodab]

Unfortunately solicitors would only be too happy to take £10k off of AtW and another £30k over the following months before he realised he was not getting anywhere. Furthermore, the posts were humorous and not malicious and I do not know of any similar cases in which anyone even bothered to spent £30 on a solicitor’s letter. AtWs boast that he spent £10k on solicitors last year does not impress me in the slightest.

Do you think he meant soliciting?