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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס@tikkunolamunist.bsky.social |
Sometimes you have to love British euphemisms. If someone showed up drunk on live television, the BBC would say that they were "tired and emotional" to evade a libel lawsuit.
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Fight Fascists
@angerright.bsky.social
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Jimmy Saville had a job at the BBC and was known to rape... well, just about anything. Well-known among elite circles, in Thatcher cliques where the phrase "rentboy" was used. And yet this below was an ad for Jimmy Saville.
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heartpunk
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ok but you left out how it can now cause other lawsuits!!! ‘Because of this widespread interpretation, one source cautions professional British journalists against its use as, "even if the journalist meant it literally", it could be considered defamatory.’
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