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If you Google ‘Preston fc lifetime ban’ you’ll quickly see the details behind the story.
A fan has written some tweets about the royal family which many folk will find offensive. The comments are certainly swimming against the tide of wider public opinion.
There’s one tweet where they ponder what would happen at PNE if they booed when there was a minute’s silence for the passing of the Queen.
I don’t like the tweets. They’re crude and disrespectful and anti-royal etc.
But……..I’m not sure I’m comfortable with a football club issuing a lifetime ban for someone making controversial tweets. They’ve not seemingly broken any laws, and there’s no apparent breach of club policies. This seems to be another overreach from an organisation. It infringes on free speech.
I doubt the lifetime ban will stand up to legal challenge. They’ve not done anything wrong within the football club, or at an away game. They’ve written a tweet.
I know it may seem like I’m defending the idiot here but I’m defending free speech and all that comes with it, warts and all. A football club doesn’t like anti-royal and strongly distasteful tweets so it issues a lifetime ban. It’s disproportionate in my view and besides that it’s not for a football club to make judgements and punishments on tweets unless they blatantly violate club policies. If they were calling for fans to invade the pitch or if they were arranging a fight with rival fans then it would be a breach of policies and/or law. But this is anti-royal sentiment and it’s not for the club to start punishing anyone they don’t agree with.
A fan has written some tweets about the royal family which many folk will find offensive. The comments are certainly swimming against the tide of wider public opinion.
There’s one tweet where they ponder what would happen at PNE if they booed when there was a minute’s silence for the passing of the Queen.
I don’t like the tweets. They’re crude and disrespectful and anti-royal etc.
But……..I’m not sure I’m comfortable with a football club issuing a lifetime ban for someone making controversial tweets. They’ve not seemingly broken any laws, and there’s no apparent breach of club policies. This seems to be another overreach from an organisation. It infringes on free speech.
I doubt the lifetime ban will stand up to legal challenge. They’ve not done anything wrong within the football club, or at an away game. They’ve written a tweet.
I know it may seem like I’m defending the idiot here but I’m defending free speech and all that comes with it, warts and all. A football club doesn’t like anti-royal and strongly distasteful tweets so it issues a lifetime ban. It’s disproportionate in my view and besides that it’s not for a football club to make judgements and punishments on tweets unless they blatantly violate club policies. If they were calling for fans to invade the pitch or if they were arranging a fight with rival fans then it would be a breach of policies and/or law. But this is anti-royal sentiment and it’s not for the club to start punishing anyone they don’t agree with.
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