AIBU to think an Edinburgh festival show about Meredith Kercher's murder should be stopped?

Me neither

I don’t remember Rachel nickels family or the public hating Colin stagg - on the contrary - they have sympathy for him - and he didn’t even wrongly do time

Omg the women can’t win - do you want her to talk about Mk more?? I thought that’s what you were against

She’s a comedian talking about the devastation of being subject to MOJ related to mysogeny and patriarchy, not the murder

Very well said - esp the intersection

The choice of the name for the show links to the mysogeny - she’s not celebrating it - She’s drawing attention to it - I think you misunderstand

I am aghast at anyone thinking she shouldn’t tell her story and how it links to patriarchy and the conjuring up of “foxy knock” in the media - it needs to be said

It’s likely the only way she can recoup the millions her family lost on her defense, in an amount of time that will allow them to actually benefit from it.

Who's been the victim of one as globally high profile as Knox, in the internet era, with the attendant misogyny too and a continuing cohort of truthers who like to say she's guilty whenever the case comes up? If you want to make comparisons, they will need to be valid.

But your type do always pick on the woman and are strangely silent on the role of the largely male police force.

And you avoided the question which shows you and your friends have done nothing worthwhile.

I think the reality is that Meredith's family still believe she's guilty, so anything she does will upset them.

In fact, I think that's the case with pretty much all of her critics. They think how dare she be out there in public, bold as brass, rather than skulking away in shame after what she did and got away with.

Because anyone who believes she's innocent will likely support her right to talk about her horrendous experience.

One movie. Other people wrote and researched them. You hardly heard from them again as they wanted to get on with their lives out of the spotlight. Lots of people are the victims of a miscarriage of justice. They don't spend their whole lives reliving it in the spotlight.

I don't know if Amanda Knox plans to do her show anywhere else in the UK, but I hope it would be nowhere near where Meredith Kercher lived and grew up.

Instead of always picking on Amanda, have you and your friend ever thought about writing to the Italian police about their incompetence and the effect it’s had on your friends ? Or campaigning against the Italian police?

Because the reason Amanda’s family was bankrupted was because of the Italian police and justice system yet you seem to have very little to say about that.

YABU. Knox is a victim in all of this and spent 4 years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit and then the rest of her life being vilified by the press. I feel terribly for Meredith’s family but I just don’t understand what they stand to gain with their hatred for her? It’s not a zero sum game and Amanda trying to rehabilitate her reputation in whatever way she can should not be seen as slight on Meredith’s legacy. People might not like Amanda but they don’t need to buy her books or see her shows. This petition feels vindictive. Just my opinion - happy to acknowledge others may feel differently.

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Equally, lots of people think the criticisms are stupid. They're both an exercise of free speech which, as you correctly point out, works both ways. This is why I'm surprised to hear you say you can't understand why people who champion free speech, like you have, could also sneer at others exercising theirs, like you have. You did it yourself. That too is free speech.

I have set out the findings of fact made by the Italian courts about the interrogation she faced. To repeat:

• She was interrogated for over 12 hours a day by 12 police officers
• Much of the questioning was in the small hours of the morning
• She was deprived of sleep, food and water
• She was beaten by the police, repeatedly slapped and called a liar
• She did not have a lawyer present as required by Italian law. Note that the police were required to proved a lawyer even if she didn't ask for one
• The interpreter provided was incompetent and believed her job was to help the police to get Knox to implicate herself and Lumumba, in line with the police's theory
• The police made false claims about the evidence and became aggressive when she refused to change her story and implicate Lumumba

The Italian courts have decided that all the above statements are established facts. If that falls short of extreme duress in your book, what does qualify?

What inaccuracy 😂

Criticism isn't censorship.

Do you understand that searching someone's posts will only show you when the first non-deleted post was made, not when the name change happened? It sounds like you don't.

I described the show as abhorrent because that is genuinely many people view it. Others are free to criticise my view, just as I’m free to criticise the show. That rather proves my point.. freedom of speech works both ways and doesn’t mean freedom from criticism.

Re the last sentence. You referred to Knox's exercise of her free speech as abhorrent earlier in the thread, and agreed earlier with a post saying those who've posted in support of her right to exercise it at Edinburgh were completely lacking in decency. So maybe if you think back to how you were feeling when you wrote that, it'll help you understand.