Internet identity

[Seeker_UK]

Ro seu managars.

Kues Reek.

 

[Swamp Thing]

mfwfs voefsftujnbuf uiptf qftlz ljet

 

[Julf]

Dvoojoh qmbo!

 

[Lee T]

We don't want anyone to be able to express themselves without fear of repercussions, do we?

This made me smile

 

[Lee T]

Maybe we should have an honesty hour on pfm, all mods offline & we can say what we really think without the fear of a ban.

Be very interesting indeed.

Could clear the air a little

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Ah, but those* are a silly EU invention anyway!

Pedantry point, they're a UK invention. We had a Data Protection Act in 1984. It took the EU until 1995 to enact a data protection Directive.

*data protection laws

 

[TheDecameron]

Maybe we should have an honesty hour on pfm, all mods offline & we can say what we really think without the fear of a ban.

Be very interesting indeed.

Could clear the air a little

I'd support you in getting what ever it is, off your chest.

 

[Lee T]

I say what I think, unhindered by fear of reprisal.

I'd support you in getting what ever it is, off your chest.

Only a fool sits on the sidelines sniping at others.
Honesty hour would free these individuals of their fear.

 

[Julf]

Pedantry point, they're a UK invention. We had a Data Protection Act in 1984. It took the EU until 1995 to enact a data protection Directive.

"You might call that a fact. I would call that an opinion".

 

[Mr Cat]

Maybe we should have an honesty hour on pfm, all mods offline & we can say what we really think without the fear of a ban.

Be very interesting indeed.

Could clear the air a little

that used to be the wam's cockpunching thread 24/7..

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

"You might call that a fact. I would call that an opinion".

Ha!

 

[Joe Hutch]

that used to be the wam's cockpunching thread 24/7..

And jolly tedious it was, too.

 

[Mr Cat]

And jolly tedious it was, too.

it certainly was when the usual crowd took control of it..

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

The cockpunching thread was one reason why I never took to the Wam. It felt like a group of twelve year olds just up at big school discovering that they could swear and get away with it.

 

[Joe Hutch]

The cockpunching thread was one reason why I never took to PFM. It felt like a group of twelve year olds just up at big school discovering that they could swear and get away with it.

I think you mean 'The Wam' rather than 'pfm'!

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

I think you mean 'The Wam' rather than 'pfm'!

Oops! edited. Thanks.

 

[Guest432]

The CP & park like a c*nt threads could have some very funny stuff though, was always good to have a full on tourettes ridden rant occasionally.

 

[PsB]

Pedantry point, they're a UK invention. We had a Data Protection Act in 1984. It took the EU until 1995 to enact a data protection Directive.

*data protection laws

[Pedant mode]
It would appear you are unfamiliar with other data protection laws and initiatives in Europe. See for instance France's Law No. 78-17 of Jan 6, 1978 "relative to IT, databases and freedoms" and Germany's similarly robust protections, which go back even further (the state of Hesse passed a law in 1970, described as the earliest data protection law in the world; at the federal level, the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) goes back to 1979.
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000886460
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bdsg_1990/BJNR029550990.html#BJNR029550990BJNG000102301
[/Pedant mode]

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

[Pedant mode]
It would appear you are unfamiliar with other data protection laws and initiatives in Europe. See for instance France's Law No. 78-17 of Jan 6, 1978 "relative to IT, databases and freedoms" and Germany's similarly robust protections, which go back even further (the state of Hesse passed a law in 1970, described as the earliest data protection law in the world; at the federal level, the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) goes back to 1979.
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000886460
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bdsg_1990/BJNR029550990.html#BJNR029550990BJNG000102301
[/Pedant mode]

Thank you, point taken. All that said, Julf's claim was that this was an EU invention, which remains not the case.

 

[zippy]

If exact identities were mandatory, then I'd probably close most of my accounts because I would fear the knock-on effect of getting continually pestered by unwanted emails. It's bad enough already.