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to think Sun readers are as lowlife as the hackers

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moogster1a · 27/04/2012 09:27

That's it really. Anyone who is aware of the Sun's treatment of people such as Millie Dowler's parents, and of Ann Diamond is as complicit and scuzzy as the people at the Sun who condoned it.

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SeaHouses · 27/04/2012 13:06

Not all links look like that WL. Some people create links that don't have the URL in them.

Nancy66 · 27/04/2012 13:08

The examples being used are from years ago....Samantha Fox is 46 now!!

SeaHouses · 27/04/2012 13:09

this link could be to anything

WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 13:10

Why would you create a link like that in an email though?

It doesn't make sense

If you email someone a link for a specific reason, it'd be a very odd thing to do.

Not quite as odd as the OP clicking it...realising it's the Sun and then immediately shutting it down without reading it though.....

nethunsreject · 27/04/2012 13:10

Yanbu.

NarkedPuffin · 27/04/2012 13:11

Anyone who buys it is effectively wearing a big badge that says I support the denigration of women and have the brain of a slug. Having said that, it's their choice.

Birdsgottafly · 27/04/2012 13:11

OP perhaps you would be better asking if Scum readers were as misguided as BNP supporters?

After all i suppose there is some good in everything/everyone, well enough to ignore other aspects, i suppose.

SeaHouses · 27/04/2012 13:12

People email me links like that all the time with work related stuff. Presumably to make the email shorter.

DPrince · 27/04/2012 13:12

No, not defensive. I don't read it just pointing out the irony to the op and that she by her own op must be scuzzy. Her first argument was that it was ok to look online as she isn't paying for it, when it was pointed out that she was increasing their revenue she changed her story. Surely if its ok to label an entire group of people its ok to point out the op is part of that group. I don't like the sun and have never read it, but don't like the ops blanket judgment either.

NarkedPuffin · 27/04/2012 13:13

Charlotte Church was 16 in 2006. They did a countdown to her being 'legal'. Recent enough?

WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 13:14

I'm just laughing at the thought of the OP clicking an email link...seeing 'The Sun' at the top and then screaming "OMG OMG QUICK WHERE'S THE X BUTTON??"

And then trying to click it with their eyes closed Grin

Pinkshoes2 · 27/04/2012 13:17

Charlotte church is 26. So that would of been 2002. Its hard to believe shes that old now.

JosephineCD · 27/04/2012 13:19

I read the Sun all the time. I think it is a good newspaper, far better than the snooty left wing ones like the Guardian.

Nancy66 · 27/04/2012 13:19

The charlotte church thing is an urban myth - it didn't happen

SeaHouses · 27/04/2012 13:22

Sun readers on this thread aren't even putting forward an argument as to why it is ethical to read newspaper stories that harm others.

Which kind of proves the OP's point.

Pinkshoes2 · 27/04/2012 13:23

I agree JosephineCD it is a good paper. If you dont like it dont buy it or click on links to it.

WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 13:25

I should probably add

I don't read any newspapers. I listen to the news on the radio, watch it on TV and online.

I've just been enjoying seeing the OP furiously back peddle regarding the links Grin

I've got a feeling someone shot themselves in the foot there regarding their blanket judgement.

hairylemon · 27/04/2012 13:25

I don't have to put an argument forward to explain why I like the odd story in a fecking newspaper. Everyone does harmless stuff that isn't ethical to others

NarkedPuffin · 27/04/2012 13:26

It's in her testimony to the Levenson enquiry. NI deny it. I think I'll give her the benefit of the doubt, as she hasn't been involved with hacking people's phones - including those of 7/7 victimes and survivors - and caught out lying.

Pinkshoes2 · 27/04/2012 13:26

i cant be arsed thinking up an argument seahouses, i just like reading it!

Nancy66 · 27/04/2012 13:28

There was indeed a website - it was nothing to do with the Sun.

It doesn't matter what you believe - those are the absolute facts.

hairylemon · 27/04/2012 13:28

Sooooo the people who sent you these links, have you told them you think they are scuzzy?

SeaHouses · 27/04/2012 13:30

Well yes, exactly. Most people from about Primary age, in my experience, don't have to think up arguments to justify what they do and don't do, because they think about what they're doing, why they're doing it and whether or not they should be doing it at the time they do it.

But the impression on this thread is either that Sun readers either

a. don't think about other people's feelings.

or
b. don't really think at all.

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moogster1a · 27/04/2012 13:31

lots of links don't include the web address as I'm sure you're aware. And when I follow a link and I realise that it's not something I want to read or which I disapprove of, then yes, I shut it down straight away.
I still haven't heard the justification from anyone as to why they support a publication that condones such revolting behaviour towards often innocent people.

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moogster1a · 27/04/2012 13:33

The one person I am reasonably close to who reads the Sun, yes I've told him it's scuzzy and it makes him a scuzzy person for buying it.

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