Where has Prince Andrew gone?

GNHQ you really ought to reply to our comments! It is all about transparency these days

Legal isnt a topic they look at very often?

GNHQ said last night that if they deleted certain posts the thread wouldn't make sense so it would be better to delete the whole thing.

And although I said 'legal reasons' that might not have been their exact terminology. It was late and the thread disappeared while I was watching Foyle.

It was their terminology, Merlot

The deleted thread can still be found, saying:

Thread deleted
Message from GNHQ: Removed for legal reasons.

Just been listening to a discussion on the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2, in which much of the content of the GN thread was covered. I do think GNHQ has overreacted.

Just what I was thinking Ana, while I was listening to it.

Thanks, when. I was beginning to think my fuzzy, cold filled brain had imagined it.

Please see my reply on other post.

gosh, I think my earlier post has been deleted.....George Orwell, you would understand the 21st century!!

Go on, admit it, you panicked.

I agree that even George Orwell wouldn't have credited it. Free speech is dead.

Blimey- I can't believe it!

Just for the record, cari, I saw the post on the thread saying why it would be deleted and that seemed fine to me. I had noticed some 'assumptions' too. Nobody blethers on about feee speech as much as I do on here but I understood the need to delete that thread because, as people never fail to remind me, free speech doesn't mean you can say just anything on any subject. There are limits and innocent until proven guilty is one of the limits, or lines, that shouldn't be crossed. It had been on that thread, if only by implication.

A thought for future reference: would it be possible for Tech to arrange it so that when a thread gets deleted the reason stays visible for twenty-four hours? People might not moan so much then

So if I say on here that someone I know is a thief when they are not, and then they decide to sue me, where does that leave gransnet?
{I havent done this by the way!]
They have to go back and remove the posts?

I think we have done this to death now haven't we? All is clear. All is well.

(Scatters fairy dust to be sure)

Cari, it may not be possible to leave the deleted thread with the reason for its removal up for 24 hours, but surely GNHQ could post the reason for its deletion somewhere?

There could be a designated 'Deleted Threads' thread...

I'm taking my decs down. Really slowly.

I'm trying to be helpful, here jingl...

Of flip me! Leave off!

Where did that comma come from?