No I don’t
But if that aspect of turings life, which didn’t affect his job, had caused him to be fired, we’d have lost a lot. This blokes piss poor comment may be equally as irrelevant to his job, and his contribution could be equally vital (unlikely but who knows)
Paul definitely did not say that John.
Really? Then we’d have virtually none of the current HoC left. And where do you draw the line? Your ‘stupid comment’ may be acceptable to many and v-v.
And before some smart arse wades in with whether I think police should shoot peaceful protesters, no I don’t.
You say that, like it would be a bad thing!
So you think school teachers, as just one group, should be allowed to make comments like that?
Don’t loose their job?
If you can’t control your mouth, and you are in that type of position, you shouldn’t be in the job.
Can they hold those views as long as they don’t tweet about it?
What if they say it once, after a glass or two of wine? Should someone really lose their job for what they say in the heat of the moment?
I expect a public official, in their official capacity, to be far more circumspect, but getting sacked for what is really just shouting out of your window seems a bit strong.
John misread my comment earlier. If he was my boss should he be able to sack me for having those views about homosexuality?
The bloke was a bit of a dick. It would appear he did it once. Sacking seems a bit OTT
no
hard cheddar
yes
Can’t hold a dissenting view, let alone express it, for fear of reprisals… all we need is a head on a tv making sure we understand the current doctrine
Dissenting from the view that people shouldn’t be shot?
Sorry, but a dissenting view is like/dislike Mrs Brown’s Boys.
Advocating murder is advocating murder.
I would agree with you despite the fact that I’ve advocated the fatal use of woodchippers, trebuchets, supersonic size 22 Dr Martens and herds of hungry Gibbons (sometimes all at the same time) in the CP thread. I think the context (the CP thread on the AA under an alias and decapitated head picture thingo) and doing it via Twitter as a member of the Cabinet office as part of public debate in violation of your employer’s social media policies are probably not comparable.
I think half the point is that the patently absurd is just modern code for expressing dislike, because realistically it is outwith the realms of possibility.
xyz should be fired into the sun. Absurd -> I don’t like xyz.
A couple of right-thinking football lads should stab xyz in the kidneys as he’s leaving the pub. Certainly meant to convey menace, quite possibly an explicit threat.
Most of Tory Twitter is based on pretending that you can’t see this kind of difference.
I don’t do twitter at all for the above reason and myriad others. Life is too short. I almost don’t do Facebook (I only keep it on to buy records and get gig tips - pointless since March 
).
I agree wholeheartedly.
There was a guy a few years ago who got jail time for threatening to bomb an airport. He had tweeted something that was obviously in frustration at some delays he was having there, but the judge didn’t agree so he got jail. I disagree with the judge on this, I think.
Saying that we should use live rounds on protestors is also absurd in a way, obviously we won’t, so I have some sympathy with the bloke. However, given what has happened recently in the USA it’s beyond tasteless.
I’m not happy about having to be careful about what you put online; the line of acceptability is often not very clear. We need to have much clearer guidelines.
There also needs to be some way of genuinely unsaying something (possibly with an apology). It’s easy for things to come out wrong, and losing your job over a careless comment is absurd.
update: Matt Hancock has now made Harold Shipman, Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile trend on Twitter, and it’s only 1015 am.
We had a contractor fired when he posted a comment on one of the directors Facebook posts of a photo of Jeremy Corbyn saying he’s going to save the country.
He said…
Q.. What’s red and hangs from a cunt
A.. Jeremy Corbyn’s tie.
Bravery and stupidity in equal measure
Today I shall mostly be enjoying “Scottish Tory 6 chip twat”
But was that because he used the word ‘cunt’, because he criticised Corbyn, disagreed with his boss or made people spit their tea over their keyboards?
Trumps Mini me.
