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1  All across the Great Western territory / Introductions and chat / Re: This moaning on twitter on: February 02, 2012, 22:55:13
Well, fair enough mate.  In which case, I refer you to Twitter's terms of service:

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"You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate"

As far as kids using Twitter goes, well yes, they do.  And they write proper offensive bile too.
2  All across the Great Western territory / Introductions and chat / Re: This moaning on twitter on: February 02, 2012, 22:22:35

No, what is unacceptable is leaving passengers standing on an unheated semi-rural platform for 40 minutes at -4.5C and not apologising when the train finally did arrive.  The language used was an accurate description of my feelings at the time -- I foolishly thought that I would try the train instead of driving to work.  It left me freezing cold and 50 minutes late.
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It would be more accurate to say that what you experienced was 'also unacceptable' .... One does NOT justify the other, it's one thing being angry and getting your point across.... Swearing and using threatening behaviour Is totally unjustified

I used the F word, so shoot me. It was justified at the time. There was no threatening or indeed abusive behaviour, indeed if you read the tweet you'll note the comment was more directed at the system than even FGW (First Great Western) and was in no way threatening.

If you choose to be offended that I got a bit upset at a poor service then fair enough, but don't expect an apology.
3  All across the Great Western territory / Introductions and chat / Re: This moaning on twitter on: February 02, 2012, 20:27:37
Just out of interest... Could someone with legal knowledge confirm my interpretation of part of the public order act relating to displaying written abusive language (swearing) is correct?

From section's 4 and 4 a of the 1986 public order act

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.(b)distributes or displays to another person any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting,

 

Am I correct in thinking that this also applies to social networking sites

Some of the language being used within the complaints is unacceptable

No, what is unacceptable is leaving passengers standing on an unheated semi-rural platform for 40 minutes at -4.5C and not apologising when the train finally did arrive.  The language used was an accurate description of my feelings at the time -- I foolishly thought that I would try the train instead of driving to work.  It left me freezing cold and 50 minutes late.
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