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In reply to the discussion: ‘Rape porn’ possession to be punished by three years in jail, David Cameron to announce [View all]Violet_Crumble
(36,385 posts)We don't have anything in our Constitution about freedom of speech, but it's worked for us. And one instance of where I do think things should be banned (Americans would call it censorship) is incidents where sick fucks have set up fake FB pages mourning a child who'd been abducted, raped and murdered and were posting incredibly revolting shit. The Queensland police asked FB to remove the posts, but FB refused. Another would be the page of a Melbourne woman who was raped and murdered and a FB lynch-mob formed to rage about her murderer. Only problem was that some of those posting were posting information that could have tainted the trial. In that case, I'm all for censorship...
If this law was in the US, I think you'd have a point, but it's in the UK where things are very different from what I can see...