Facebook has decided to defy Cameron (ooer!) and keep the tribute page to Raoul Moat online.
The Prime Minister had earlier condemned those who had shown sympathy for the former nightclub doorman after he had shot three people – killing one of them.
Now, I agree with Cameron, just as I agree with AlJahom and Counting Cats. These tribute sites are a manifestation of rampant fuckwittery, emotional incontinence and supreme illiteracy. I agree that those who flock to pay tribute to a psychopathic murderer are pretty sick, frankly. I agree that Moat did the world a favour when he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. I agree with them, and Cameron, that this man was neither hero nor legend, he was not just a misunderstood lad who was no angel but had been hard done by. He was a thug, a brutal, violent murderer and deserving of no sympathy whatsoever and he gets none from me.
However, there is an underlying point here; one that the Facebook people seem to have grasped and one that the unnamed conservative MP urging Cameron to get the site taken down seems not to…
Freedom of speech.
I agree with you. Everyone has a right to be a twat. Everyone else has the right to call ’em on it.
Indeed. I have nothing but contempt for the hideous muppets who are praising this murderous tw@t on Face book. But thats why I haven’t visited the page.
In fact, I don’t do facebook at all. All the examples I’ve seen so far make me view it as an online gathering place for all the chavs and misfits of society.
I rather like AlJahom’s take on Facebook:
Ditto that.
Yeah, its a good one that.
Just looking at them comments is enought to give you a headache. How on earth are you supposed to decipher all that chav speak? No wonder they can’t get jobs.
Do they want jobs?
…erm……oh…….yeah.
What was I thinking?