[arista]

Her Kent Boss (who is on 85K)
says she keeps her Job.

Are you happy Jack?

[Jordan.]

Saw her crying on the news. It made me laugh.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

Saw her crying on the news. It made me laugh.

Made me laugh, too .....

[Jack_]

Just when I thought this couldn't get any worse...the front page of the actual newspaper has printed a picture from her Twitter profile



How the **** is this acceptable? Acceptable for a national newspaper to print somebody's picture like that that they've taken from their Twitter without their permission? Acceptable for them to print it and publicly humiliate and vilify a 17 year old girl? How the **** can anybody justify that? How is that allowed to be printed?

I'm sorry but the Mail is abhorrent at the best of times but the last few weeks it has really stooped to a low that's just beyond disgusting, this, the Philpott front page and Richard Littlejohn's column that led to an innocent transgender woman taking her own life. Absolutely vile.

[Jack_]

This is just another case the Mail have used to pursue their endless class war in a truly repulsive fashion. Because this girl isn't middle class, middle-aged, pure, 'respectable' and abstinent and doesn't conform to their narrow world-view, she has to be subject to this paper's public ridiculing and humiliation until she's driven to the point of suicide.

I simply cannot fathom how a national newspaper can or is allowed to print this and single innocent people out and treat them with such contempt.

Masters of deflection.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jack_

This is just another case the Mail have used to pursue their endless class war in a truly repulsive fashion. Because this girl isn't middle class, middle-aged, pure, 'respectable' and abstinent and doesn't conform to their narrow world-view, she has to be subject to this paper's public ridiculing and humiliation until she's driven to the point of suicide.

I simply cannot fathom how a national newspaper can or is allowed to print this and single innocent people out and treat them with such contempt.

Masters of deflection.

Its a Public Job.
I assume you Now want the lass to Keep her job?

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by arista

Its a Public Job.
I assume you Now want the lass to Keep her job?

The job is the secondary issue here, my main problem is that a national newspaper is allowed to publicly ridicule, humiliate and vilify a 17 year old girl. That is not acceptable, it's appalling and I don't care how anyone tries to cut it, it cannot be justified.

[Nedusa]

These are normal tweets for a 17 yr old in todays world......aren't they ???

[MTVN]

A lot of people seem to have no comprehension that everything they post on twitter is in the public domain and can be read by any one and at any time. When you end up in a position in the public eye it becomes all the more important to realise that because it's part and parcel of the job and you are going to be scrutinised, don't take the job if you're not prepared for that. I get that the tweets aren't all that out of the ordinary for what a lot of young people might post but her holding this position of authority is. Not really for me to say whether she should lose her job but she has been a bit stupid

[Redway]

Originally Posted by MTVN

A lot of people seem to have no comprehension that everything they post on twitter is in the public domain and can be read by any one and at any time. When you end up in a position in the public eye it becomes all the more important to realise that because it's part and parcel of the job and you are going to be scrutinised, don't take the job if you're not prepared for that. I get that the tweets aren't all that out of the ordinary for what a lot of young people might post but her holding this position of authority is. Not really for me to say whether she should lose her job but she has been a bit stupid

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but were those tweets not from quite a while back now? Or are they recent?

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Redway

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but were those tweets not from quite a while back now? Or are they recent?

I don't know the exact dates but between 14-16 I believe, so the more recent ones will only have been a few months ago

[Omah]

Originally Posted by MTVN

A lot of people seem to have no comprehension that everything they post on twitter is in the public domain and can be read by any one and at any time. When you end up in a position in the public eye it becomes all the more important to realise that because it's part and parcel of the job and you are going to be scrutinised, don't take the job if you're not prepared for that. I get that the tweets aren't all that out of the ordinary for what a lot of young people might post but her holding this position of authority is. Not really for me to say whether she should lose her job but she has been a bit stupid

Exactly .....

..... and Ann Barnes is even more stupid to come up with a stupid idea .....

[Kizzy]

She has been a LOT stupid, this role needed someone with self respect, intelligence and a modicum of control, there are many 17yr olds for whom this is not a problem. To me they have the wrong person for this position.

[Kizzy]

How far back can they be if she is talking of booze and sex?

[Black Dagger]

She's young and foolish, and hopefully she'll grow up and realise she's done wrong.

I don't condone her tweets, they are disgusting, but she shouldn't be villified forever.

[Kizzy]

Does young always mean foolish though? I am sick of some making excuses for young people to act as thick as shiz.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

How far back can they be if she is talking of booze and sex?

A lot far. Or do you really have no awareness of what the typical teenager is like?

Originally Posted by MTVN

I don't know the exact dates but between 14-16 I believe, so the more recent ones will only have been a few months ago

Well, I was under the impression that most of those posts had been made when she was 14 and 15, in which case I particularly didn't think Daily Mail publishing those tweets were appropriate, as she may well have matured by now.

If the recent ones are as you say, a few months ago, then I understand both sides a bit more, although I'd still maintain the belief that it's wrong to publish tweets like that and demonise a teenager.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Redway

A lot far. Or do you really have no awareness of what the typical teenager is like?


Well, I was under the impression that most of those posts had been made when she was 14 and 15, in which case I particularly didn't think Daily Mail publishing those tweets were appropriate, as she may well have matured by now.

If the recent ones are as you say, a few months ago, then I understand both sides a bit more, although I'd still maintain the belief that it's wrong to publish tweets like that and demonise a teenager.

Rubbish! of course I do.. I own two teenagers I know how they work.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Rubbish! of course I do.. I own two teenagers I know how they work.

Then what was the need for your post if you know fully well all the stuff about underage drinking, etc? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to justify her idiotic behaviour, but it's completely wrong to publish tweets without consent no matter what.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Redway

Then what was the need for your post if you know fully well all the stuff about underage drinking, etc? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to justify her idiotic behaviour, but it's completely wrong to publish tweets without consent no matter what.

Not all teens drink underage, don't judge everyone by your own standards.
If you are in a position of responsibility you have to take responsibility for all you do and all you say in real life and online.

[lostalex]

She's a disgusting bigot. She has no place in public service. She has the right to spew whatever disgusting bigoted hate-feuled rants she wants, but she does NOT have the right to receive tax payer money to do it.

there are so many good spirited, enlightened, intelligent youths out there that DESERVE to be supported by the tax payer.

This ugly little racist pig is not one of them.

[Nedusa]

On the subject of Press intrusion and invasion of privacy, i thought her tweets were to her followers, so why has a national newspaper decided it should publish private messages.

eh........was a crime being committed NO !! so why then ? could it be perhaps I know...lets have another sensational headline sell lots of newspapers and make more money....!!!

****ing Gutter Press..........!!!!!

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22070354

Two Kent MPs - Laura Sandys and Damian Collins - said Paris should step down.

Ms Sandys, the South Thanet Conservative MP, said on Twitter: "Paris Brown should step down as youth crime Tsar for Kent... Gimmicks always backfire."

'Intense scrutiny'

Mr Collins, the Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe, said he did not think the role should have been created in the first place, and called on Ms Barnes to admit that it had been "a mistake".

"I feel sorry for Paris Brown to be put in this position where there is such a high level of scrutiny about what she has said.

"She is going to be under constant pressure to explain what she meant and it's best that this young person should rebuild her life away from intense media scrutiny," Mr Collins said.

Just this once, I'll back the Tories .....

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22070354

Comments posted on Twitter by Britain's first youth police and crime commissioner are being investigated for possible criminal offences.

Paris Brown, 17, posted what could have been considered racist and anti-gay tweets from the ages of 14 to 16.

She was appointed to the £15,000-a-year post last week by Kent PCC Ann Barnes, who said she would stand by her.

Kent Police said it was investigating the circumstances to determine whether any offences had been committed.

The force said it had received on Monday a number of complaints about statements posted on social media.

Off to jail in cuffs, student who tweeted abuse about heart failure footballer Fabrice Muamba

27 March 2012

A student who posted a series of racist comments on Twitter following footballer Fabrice Muamba’s cardiac arrest has begun a prison sentence of 56 days.

Liam Stacey, 21, caused widespread revulsion by reacting to Muamba’s mid-game collapse by writing: ‘LOL [laughing out loud], **** Muamba. He’s dead!!! #haha.’ He responded to criticism of that message with vile racist tweets.

The messages were forwarded to the police by several members of the social network, including former England striker Stan Collymore, himself a victim of abuse on Twitter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2Pv1GA3Ve

That should have been a warning to Twitter abusers, including Ms Brown, aged 15 - what you say can be held against you, now or in the future.....

[arista]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...tter-rant.html

She has given her Job up now