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How would you choose this independent body? Would it be a national thing? Or international? Would UK Internet laws apply in other countries? What about people using VPNs? Should the first amendment apply to US citizens on twitter? Or should they be forced to apply a hate speech law that doesn't exist in America on all citizens? Who decides what is political party propaganda and just a meme? Given that immediate moderation of content on platforms like Facebook is impossible, presumably you'd favour machine learning? I assume you're also happy with these companies erring on the safe side and allowing algorithms to mass delete anything potentially "offensive" without context even if it has the potential to be offensive? Just some of the many questions this sort of thing throws up.

Odd that you would consider it a pure rumour conjured out of thin air rather than something planted by the club to placate fans seeing as that's been a pretty consistent pattern from sfc, in particular using the telegraph.

Or maybe people in general aren't as gullible as you believe and simply believe that Boris is the lesser of two evils when faced with the horror show that is corbyn's labour? Novel idea I know. It must be so demoralising for people like you when the general public steadfastly refuse to vote the way you want them to, but rather than learning from the continual failure, the radical left answer is simply more of the same and sagging off the electorate. Then you wonder why they keep losing, look at the Democratic party tearing itself apart and they could well hand trump another term. Did they moderate their policies and appeal to the centre ground? Or have they gone more extreme and called everyone racist? If Labour lose this election then they could learn a lot about how not to deal with the fallout from the Democrats in the US.

I don't see how they will be locked to the backbenches. After the membership debacle, its now full to the brim with hard left momentum types who will just vote in the next leftist radical. I reckon they will end up forming a new party and leaving the Marxists to eat themselves.

Indeed it's jot something that's easily solved by nice words like "let's regulate social media."

Disagreeing with globalism and not wanting to continue with the EU is not being scared of the future.

Fair enough. If a future Labour Party comes up with some sensible proposals that are reasonable then I suspect they would get voted into government. Not sure that will happen any time soon though as I can't see how they are going to wrest control from the crazies. They will probably put a lipstick on a pig next by appointing Rebecca long bailey as leader and trying to sell similar policies in slightly nicer packaging. Hopefully the British public won't be fooled and we can eventually get a proper opposition worth voting for.

How would you regulate "abuse" on social media? Who decides what is "abuse?" Do we let the government of the day decide? Do we let tech giants like Zuckerberg decide? Who makes distinctions between lies and misinformation and truth or differences of perspective?

How would you regulate "abuse" on social media? Who decides what is "abuse?" Do we let the government of the day decide? Do we let tech giants like Zuckerberg decide?

Although tbf that point does have more validity when we take points off teams on very bad runs of form.

Labour wins the election = "We knew what the electorate wanted all along." Labour lose the election = "The electorate are stupid and didn't know what they were voting for."

Biggest chortle of the week. Oh yes how very politically neutral you are. Floating voter my ar*e.

You only have to look at the social media and the responses from Momentum and their supporters to show that for many people it absolutely is to do with demonising those who are more affluent than they are. No one has argued that the richest shouldn't contribute the most but slapping them with huge taxes and demonising them through social media isn't going to solve things, they won't stick around in the UK and as someone else pointed out, stifling aspiration by hammering those at the top and attempting to make them poorer will only result in society as a whole becoming poorer. It's why people aren't buying what the socialists are selling.

Labour attempt to demonise rich people simply for having money. Like everyone there are some tyrants and unpleasant people who are rich but also some altruistic and kind ones too who already give tons of money to good causes. I saw a momentum ad yesterday laughing at people for being kind to billionaires as if having loads of money suddenly makes someone evil. There's never any recognition that some of these people will have made the country loads of money, employed hundreds or thousands of people and spearheaded innovation and wealth creation. I'm sure most can recognise that a proportional and fair tax rise would be fair enough but to try to demonise wealthy people in this manner is completely unhelpful. Thankfully it seems that the British public are rejecting this politics of envy, let's hope this attitude continues till polling day.

Clapping is insensitive to those with disabilities. I want to see mass jazz hands from the Northam.

Is that much different from someone like Reagan being president though? It's more to do with many people having a f*ck you attitude to those in power and others feeling disenfranchisement than the Internet imo.

Who decides who are tyrants and idiots though? I don't want Mark Zuckerberg to be making that judgement on my behalf.

You forgot dawn butler and David lammy. Horrendous party.

Shame. Seemed like a good choice.

Also wtf is the extinction rebellion internal conflict team? Who decides on a punishment if there's no leader and it's some communist clique? Is there voting?

Just someone who hates humanity and sees it as a virus. He should do everyone a favour if that's what he believes and end his own life for the good of the planet.

OK mate corbyn smashed it and was much superior if that makes you feel better...

Absolutely it was ridiculous. It was still even Stevens though with regards to the debate.

Have to say though, the clapping seals in the audience were the worst part. Should have been in an empty room.

Here is an example of my latter point.