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Originally Posted by Jack_
I don't see the problem, for a start the majority of those are clearly jokes, secondly they don't even appear to have been sent directly to the McCann's as claimed and have been posted on their personal Twitter accounts (in which case freedom of speech blah blah blah) and lastly regardless of whether Kate and Gerry are responsible or not (I don't really have an opinion) they still left a three children of unacceptably young ages alone in a foreign country, contempt is to be expected.
I wonder if the people who care so much about them cared so much about Shannon Matthews and her family before the truth to that case was revealed.
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Freedom of speech does not set you free from libel and slander. If you say something on the Internet it is exactly the same as saying it aloud or writing it anywhere else. It saddens me when people try to invoke free speech to protect the stupidest, rudest most ignorant people in society and to free them up to spout their bile that has only one intention and that is to be hurtful. To see people claim freedom of speech in cases like this is to diminish what freedom of speech
actually is.
I don't understand what you're getting at with the Shannon Matthews comment. Until the sorry plot was uncovered I would say generally people were concerned for the child and sympathetic to the family. Their background was not an issue, and the way it turned out it seems strange you would hold that up as an example.