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A Question to DS re Savile ...
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For YEARS people have attempted to start threads re Savile and his proclivities - they have all gone the same way - wooshed by Mods . Would DS like to explain why and on whose authority people were silenced????
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Because when he was alive he could of sued them for slander. This is a pointless thread
Libel, but yes.
Now he's dead they can leave the threads/posts there for all to see.
Thank you I wasn't sure which one it was
If what you're saying is true, then they can't sue you (successfully) for libel. Apparantly, people did have proof, so they could have taken him down when he was alive.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a450223/jimmy-savile-report-8-year-olds-abused-214-crimes-recorded.html
According to the feature there are 26 comments, but where are they? I can't see them. I can see the comments on the other features, but not for this one
Not another example of DS censorship, I hope!
Sadly, I don't blame DS for closing the pre-death Savile threads. It's just a shame that not enough people and organizations were brave enough to 'join the dots' and bring him to justice before he died. Even so, that wouldn't have been the 'job' of DS because it's not that kind of website. The best the mods could have done is passed some of the forum comments on to the authorities for closer investigation....but that could have but specific FMs at risk of prosecution for reasons we already know. Lots of the comments were speculative, anecdotal and non-specific, making such an investigation a bit pointless even though they were later shown to be accurate.
My uncle is convinced that JS was complicit in his own death because he knew the net was closing. Getting older and frailer, he no longer had the clout that he once flouted. All we can do is make sure that nobody like him is ever allowed to get away with the same again.
No we don't. We have hundreds of allegations which can't be challenged because the accused is dead. It is highly likely that Saville was guilty but there is no proof and the only reason that threads like this exist is because the man is dead and can't sue.
We have allegations. We have people alledging that Saville did various things. As Saville is dead and can not be tried in a court of law it will always be alledged. Although from the report it seems that various details given by people do follow similar trends leading towards corroborative details.
The reason the posts and threads are not 'wooshed away' by the mods is that Saville is dead and you can not libel a dead person.
http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/mps-rule-that-you-still-cant-libel-the-dead/