CiF Columnist Prefers The Warm Blanket Of 'Approved Speech'..

For a start, the desire to block, ban or remove something comes up against the fact that both Facebook and Twitter are deeply imbued with the United States's first amendment and its sense of free speech, which can at times seem like the freedom of a privileged elite to speak, lecture and make jokes.

Clearly, 'Jane Fae' prefers the comforting embrace of the CiF moderation regime, where privileged elites don't get things all their own way.

Oh. Wait...

True, it's possible they were all deleted because they threatened to rape the author. But having looked at their profiles and their other comments, and seen the bizarre things you'll get moderated for, I suspect not...

The male-rights activists, the racists, homophobes and bigots have got smart. They know how to insult, wind-up and hurt without overstepping the mark, with the end result that only the worst and most overt "you should be raped" jibes are stopped.

Because those are the only people that will ever be affected by controls. There's no such thing as mission creep in 'Jane Fae's' world.

How do we know they are 'homophobes, racists and bigots'? Well, because the author assumes they must be! And that should be good enough for us, right? It's a near-universal belief in the progressive press that SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!

If the police started to act more consistently in such instances, using the law, as they appear to have done in support of Criado-Perez, the number of cases where intervention was required would quickly reduce – and the DPP's fears of being swamped might turn out to be unfounded.

Yes, well, best of luck in getting consistency out of the police!

Let's focus instead on the law as it is: let's ask the CPS to enforce it, convince it that letting such crime slip past is about as acceptable as ignoring difficult assault cases. By all means, let's have a button – but one that delivers reports of online abuse directly to the local police force, a bit like a security alarm, and not just to Twitter.

I...

I just....

*speechless*

Which is, I guess, just what the progressives want.

This relatively simple solution doesn't exist yet but I'm currently coding a mock-up of one for Everyday Victim Blaming (EVB), a not-for-profit organisation set up to help stop violence against women.

Violence against men is, I suppose, perfectly acceptable?

This desire to help women only will strike some as strange, because despite the 'Guardian's' coy statement that 'Jane Fae is a feminist and writer...' it leaves out that part that she wasn't actually born a woman. 'She' is transgender.

There just has to be a psychological reason for this concentration on women's issues, doesn't there?