umm.....trying to thing of a post which isn't me fangirling everywhere

Photography. Best Good Charlotte pictures. Because.....I cannot get anything else in my head.
Its their fault for making me see them planning a EU tour and figuring out they have a 2/3 week gap with no UK dates announced yet.
Blame Good Charlotte.


Over photoshopped to the point they all look weird.

Free Speech, Costly Thoughts

I had an odd instance today. Where I talked about something, and was given the reply of death threats. Its an odd occurence. I am a very opinionated person, and never had the problem of such volatile reactions to my words.
It wasn't as if the words were offensive. I mean, I spoke negatively about a singer from a bands actions. But that's it. I didn't berate him for it, I just said I did not agree with his actions. Simple enough, you may think. It's just showing opinion, over something. Which is all it was. But when did opinion become a fight about what's right and wrong?

I wish I could say, that my experience today, was a one off occurence.  But I know, just by watching the news, it isn't. We are constantly being told how lucky we are, because we live in a country which allows free speech. Which is all very well, in theory. Free speech, also allows free thinking. And people, as complex as we appear, can't seem to process anything other than a good side and a bad side, just black and white. So the thoughts you think up, are either right and wrong, as if that gives it an answer.

I mean, we like answers don't we. Like to have everything in resolved in a neat little package. People are reluctant to say something is someones opinion, and to just leave it that. They feel the need to show why it is right, or wrong. Why?

Looking through the news, I saw that T4's Miquitta Oliver has been suspended from her work, because she spoke negatively about US singer Ke$ha. She apparently used swear words when talking about the singer. Now, note that the words themself, weren't what caused the damage. It was the thought process, connected to those words. But to say that someone is not allowed to air their frustrations, with this 'free speech', kind of indicates that we are not as free as we are lead to believe.

But that's not anything new is it?

Everybody PANIC!

Ran my idea, of featuring my blog in  my sketchbook, as some kind of anitation, past Caron, my tutor, today. She seemed to like it. And she also said that it could be useful as a design idea. Like having large setions of text, and pulling out words of importance into the front. This would be an enteresting concept. But I need to think about it some more.

Been reading about this 'panic button', which the government want to be added to facebook.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8574727.stm The government feel that if they inforce this, then it stops kids being lured by paedophiles. They need to be aware, that this won't actually stop the kiddies being lured by perves. Rather than bad mouthing Facebook, because it wants to attempt its own methods of protection. If a panic button is used, and it 'red flags' a members page.

This is the account being reported, and the way the most sites work, that 1 report and the member gets looked at, and warned. But 5 or 6 reports within a short period of time, the account in question is automatically blocked. Now if everybody uses it correctly, then it works well. But people will abuse it, and will report accounts, which belong to people who maybe are a tad annoying.

Also, this 'panic button' is to be used by kids. Now, it is known that most kids who fall into these traps set up by perverts, don't think they are at risk. They don't sense danger, so won't press anything.

So again, the government seem to be having somekind of kneejerk reaction, to Facebook reccently being in the news, after being used by perverts, and by criminals torturing their victims through the site.  They have just thrown out an idea, and hoped that it would be good enough. Then the government will start saying that Facebook is 'evil', in an attempt to make themselves look right. The UK government is taking to many short cuts right now, they just want to blame it on someone else