Remembering the time MN deleted my thread about David Walliams

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It was probably around 7 or 8 years ago, can't remember what username it was under even, I was complaining about people buying his books for my young ds as I was convinced DW was a complete creep. The video of him stripping a young boy on stage really disturbed me.

The thread went well, lots of people agreed with me. But MN deleted it as it was too 'personal' or something, I assume they had legal threats and had no choice.

Just goes to show the power of the man, and how hard he tried to keep the dodgy behaviour from any kind of conversation!

I don't suppose I was the only one to have a thread deleted.

Something to ponder.

The law of defamation should be changed. There should be certain allegations that if they are false and baseless without any evidence should be a criminal offence not a civil one. No rich person could then bully people into silence as several have done.

So if a newspaper had published these allegations which are of course based in the testimony of many, it would not be damages but a sanction on the editor or named publisher.

The detail of which allegations are criminal would need to be thought through.