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Councillor faces inquiry over ‘stupid’ Scientologists tweet
Wales online & various sources 20th July 2010
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... -26886933/
Councillor faces inquiry over tweet calling Church of Scientology 'stupid'
Watchdog says Cardiff councillor John Dixon's Twitter message 'likely' to have breached code of conduct for local authority members
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... logy-tweet
This is turning out to be quite bizarre and hilarious.
See it unfold in the WWP thread....
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/15-media ... ales-69608
My brush with the Church of Scientology
20 Jul10 by Padraig Reidy
The news that Cardiff councillor John Dixon could face disciplinary action after implying in a tweet that the Church of Scientology was “stupid” has caused consternation online. But Scientologists often complain about representations of them in print, broadcast and online (as is their right).
My own experience of this came in winter 2003/2004, when I was working at New Humanist magazine......
http://blog.indexoncensorship.org/2010/ ... ientology/
The Telegraph....
20th July 2010
The Multicultural Inquisition: Scientology is NOT the greatest threat to religious freedom
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwes ... s-freedom/
See also, related: viewtopic.php?t=32684
Metro (London)
20th July 2010
Twitter debate fires up over councillor's 'stupid Scientology' post
The latest web-based free speech debate has kicked off after a Cardiff councillor took to Twitter to describe the Church of Scientology as 'stupid'.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/835633-twit ... ology-post
The Telegraph again....
21st July 2010
Councillor faces suspension for calling Scientology 'stupid'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/t ... tupid.html
BBC News (Wales)
21st July 2010
Cardiff councillor's Scientology tweet goes to watchdog
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-10709956
Tweet calling Scientology Church ‘stupid’ lands councillor in trouble
http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/ ... 0072265364
The Telegraph yet again....
The new Inquisition
Telegraph View: The law has established a climate within which pettiness flourishes to the detriment of any common sense.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/tele ... ition.html
The Guardian.....The new Inquisition
Telegraph View: The law has established a climate within which pettiness flourishes to the detriment of any common sense.
The Telegraph 21st July 2010
A councillor faces suspension for dismissing Scientology as "stupid"; another is convicted of racial harassment for calling a colleague a coconut; a householder is made to feel like a racist for objecting to a gipsy site near his home. Every day, it seems, brings another tale of how comments that a few years ago would have been regarded as nothing worse than rudeness – or simply a difference of opinion – have either been criminalised or considered a justification for disciplinary action.
In large part, this is a consequence of the laws introduced by the last government, notably the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, which created the offence of racially aggravated harassment, and the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006. Although there have not been prosecutions in two of the cases mentioned above, there might have been. John Dixon, the Welsh Lib Dem councillor with a dim view of Scientology, faces a ban from office for "failing to show respect and consideration to others"; and Chris Hollis, who objected to the gipsy site near Bristol, was admonished by his local authority because his letter contained "discriminatory and insulting arguments".
..more in article link...
22nd July 2010
Scientology's problem with Twitter
As support for local councillor John Dixon shows, Scientologists
may have a harder time silencing critics online than elsewhere
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... gy-twitter
CNET UK Podcast 196: Be careful what you say on Twitter
23rd July 2010
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/podcast/cnet-uk ... -50000055/
The Guardian....
23rd July 2010
Another councillor makes 'stupid' slip
Cardiff Councillors yesterday debated the use of new media, leading another councillor to make the 'stupid' slip
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cardiff/2010/ ... ons-stupid
Humanist & Secularist Liberal Democrats.....
HSLD exclusive: Cllr. John Dixon responds to the "stupid Scientology" saga
24th July 2010
http://www.hsld.org.uk/news/000036/hsld ... _saga.html
Nice article. Do read.
Wales online....
Pursuit of Tweeter is barking... unlike Scientology
25th July 2010
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/colum ... -26924672/
Date set for city councillor’s fate (September 28th 4:30pm)
Wales online 28th July 2010
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... -26945118/
Call for action on suspension of councillors
Wales Online 19th August 2010
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/welsh ... -27092156/
Columnist Dan O’Neill: Why respect beliefs most of us consider are loony?
Wales Online 8th Sept 2010
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/colum ... -27222231/
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