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I was under the impression that she received the threat after appearing last week on the BBC political discussion programme: Question Time.
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Quote:I was under the impression that she received the threat after appearing last week on the BBC political discussion programme: Question Time.
I think you are correct, Paul. I watched her programme on Caligula and cannot for the life of me see that there was anything there that could be considered as being controversial or warranting a response amounting to a threat to life and limb. I think that she made a very good fist in holding my interest for around an hour about a person who is notorious but about whom comparatively little is actually known (other than Suetonius' gossip that is).
"Question Time" is a much more likely candidate. For some reason - although the audience is supposed to be drawn from a cross section of the population - it sometimes happens that they get a very partisan group of people. I well remember the disgraceful 'rent-a-mob' they got on there, attacking America after 9/11 (and for which the BBC apologised). In any event, it is not remotely appropriate for a response of this type to be foisted on a lady who merely expressed her opinion, which we are all entitled to do in a 'free' society' - including those clowns who indulge in this sort of nonsense.
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Quote:Well Twitter is protected by Free Speech laws. You can say whatever you want, you have a right too, but you just have to suffer the consequences of what you say.
No. The First Amendment prohibits only
government restrictions on speech. Private entities, such as twitter, facebook, or online newspapers can censor as much as they want.
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Quote:Private entities, such as twitter, facebook, or
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I don't go on Twitter much, but was flabbergasted when I saw Mary Beard on the news talking about receiving death threats!
What kind of morons do this
I had only seen here on the Caligula program what seemed like a day or 2 before,
And she is a very level headed and informative seeming woman,
Not the kind I can imagine stirring sentiments of murder towards her! :!:
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these people are morons of the lowest level, Mary Beard is as far I know is a great classcist who is one of the best. She seems to be a kind woman not a woman you would, threaten with death
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