David Cameron Hates Free Speech

Conservative Party Leader and, apparently, the PM of Great Britain David Cameron has thrown his weight into the furor surrounding the Facebook fan page dedicated to dead killer Raoul Moat.

The PM, who is about as persuasive as someone who looks like him can be, has suggested to the administrators of Facebook that they remove the page.  Facebook declined and David Cameron backed out of the conflict bowing his head and apologizing for trying to dictate what can or cannot be hosted on the Internet.

David Cameron will find it hard to tell the vast majority of his public what they can or cannot do over the course of his time in office.  To assume he could hold any sort of power over the Internet is laughable. David Cameron could have all the guns in the world and I still would not be able to take him seriously if he threatened me. The guy has the authority of a librarian.

While the Internet may have started as something to share information, and educate people, we have to come to terms with the fact that it is now awash with ego massaging social networking sites. Sites where people treat the Internet as their own gossip pages, letting their friends know just how trashed they were, or where they are at any given moment, desperate for a “like” or comment.  Another part of it is to let their “friends” know just how cool they are by advertising just what they are into, fan pages are increasingly popular now, and with the free advertisement of “Raoul Moat the legend” fan page has made it bigger news than it should have been.

For the time being we just have to accept that, the same thing that is ruining the real world, capitalism and the morons who believe in it have hijacked the original ideas behind the Internet.

However, as much as David Cameron seems to think he was in the right to publicly slam the fan page dedicated to Moat, something he only did to try to gain your support, he has no right to dictate to any website what they can or cannot host.  The Internet is a forum for free speech and David Cameron should focus more on things that will help get this country back on track, and less on things that will gain him friends.

I am happy to accept he existence the fan page because the guy is dead.  Moreover, like Raoul Moat these pages will die eventually, it took a week for us to get rid of him, within a month the pages will start to gather dust, and within a year, only the truly idiotic will remember him.

Facebook told Mr. Cameron where to go, the page stays, and you are able to whittle any idiots away from your page of “friends.”  Obviously, we already knew that Mr. Cameron is against free speech, he is a Tory after all, but I did not think he would advertise it so soon after his entrance into Downing Street. What he should really worry about is the fan page I am going to make when his idol Margaret Thatcher finally dies; you will get the chance to become a fan of “Dancing on the grave of Maggie Thatcher.”

You may not like pages such as the one dedicated to Moat that is the problem with freedom of speech I guess.  You cannot possibly agree with the opinions of everyone, you just have to get on with it.  The fact Cameron thought it was his place to get involved only shows that he is not even close to being fit to lead a country.

Moat was an idiot, and he died like one.  Why let the thoughts of a few misguided people bother you, there are far more serious matters at hand.  Stop watching Sky News, only they want you to think this is a big deal.  I would rather Cameron tells us what he plans to do now that the truth about Labour sanctioned torture of innocent men in the wake of 9/11 has been brought into the open, I would like to hear what his thoughts are on that.  I want to know if he plans to even mention it.

If Cameron wants friends as much as his desperation would suggest then he should hang Tony Blair for being an evil psychopath, or bury him up to his chest and let us hurl rocks at him. I think if Cameron did that I would not feel so bad every day that his face is the face of British politics around the world.

Posted by henryhunter on July 15, 2010. Filed under Henry Hunter Politics - World News,International Politics,Opinion Editorial,United Kingdom,WorldNewsVine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.