Since when did this appear at the bottom of each thread?

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It is with great regret that we have to ask members to refrain from any further discussion of Gina Ford, her methods or her books on the site. To find out why click here. We'd be very grateful if members could report any mentions of Gina Ford using the "contact Mumsnet" facility (the little red exclamation mark to the right of each posting). Many thanks. MNHQ. "

Never seen it before.

(btw tantrum was the word I used when describing all this to DH )

Now now Ursula, poor little Princess Bea can't help having her mother's looks

Interesting that no-one and said no lawyers are nowhere to be seen, they must have been expecting this today? Wern't they? Or did they really think there would be no backlash?

independent article here

Daily Mail Link Here xxx

guardian here

lol that the female dj on radio five knew which parenting guru was involved!

OMG! I stayed off mumsnet yesterday, innocently logged on today and look what's happened. Am and

MNHQ I'm so sorry that it came to this.

Welcome to all the Bounty and BMC-ers. You guys are great .

MP - LMAO!

Everybody else - Great work with the media. What a team! I'm emailing the Australian press and online communtity as we speak. This sort of freedom of speech issue will definitely be of interest to them. Let's make sure this is a global reaction. An attempt to shut down mumsnet and gag all debate on a key parenting issue? I am that this is so Orwellian.

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Telegraphs' take

And the Independent .

And the Guardian . Can you tell I'm up earlier than usual??

Quite interesting to see the allegedly defamatory statements being repeated ad infinitum . If nobody was worried about the damage to her reputation by what was posted here, she should be absolutely delighted with the coverage in the national press today.

OMG....maybe it's my PG hormones or maybe it's just because I love MN so much but actually have tears in my eyes at what you've done to svae MN's skin
I wish I had the brains to help, but you've done a fantastic job without me.

LONG LIVE MN!!!

Freckle, absolutely! So, hmm, let me see, the Guardian, Times, Independent, Mail and Standard have all reported this (and repeated stuff). Will they be shut down I wonder?

This is one morning when it is actually a pleasure to be out of bed at this time

There is a defence to an accusation of defamation of public interest. Surely it's in the public interest to know that someone putting themselves forward as an expert in a particular area objects to debate about their propositions. Anyone can write a book and state that they know what they are talking about. It's only through others reading that book and discussing it (the pros and the cons) that people can make an informed decision about its contents. If the writer objects to such discussion, it smacks of a lack of faith in what has been written. All consequent discussion has to be in the public interest, shurely.......

Good oh! Hope she's feeling thoroughly discomforted this morning.

BTW Did anyone see the statement on BMC which said they had clarified that the methods prescribes COULD be discussed as long as personal attacks were not made. Fair enough, I think I the prescribed routines are dreadful and I would never inflict them on my baby.

I was always MOR about it before (you know - what doesn't suit me may well suit someone else) but am so disgusted by this action of it makes me doubt everything

LTH

I am not PG and I am filling up, come over here and blub with me.

LGJ pats seat and locates copious amounts of tissues.

Again, THANK YOU to all of you who helped with this. Im jsut sorry I was so useless yesterday.

I have had tears in my eyes all morning, the newspaper reports are FAB!

WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER GIRLS!!!

Oh absolutely Freckle. It's interesting that nobody/lawyers/publishers were unavailable to comment.

As a member of the book buying public I might have to write to Random House, they have some very good authors I think. Although I ought to curb my £200 a month book habit really. Maybe this will be a good month to do it.

My dh said to me last night "it can't be that big a story, it's not anywhere on google". ha. how I shall gloat now! But will publicising this be enough to save mn? Just because it's public knowledge that a site is being threatened with closure because of these views, doesn't mean it'll stop the lawyers taking action surely? I think it's great btw that this is all in the papers, but I think we should be careful and not be too complacent in thinking that we've won and that nobody will back down. In fact this could make them more determined, once mn is shut down, other parenting sites will be a lot less willing to let campaigns like this stay on their sites, and the mn thing would blow over soon enough.

Not being negative, just being a a realist.

As an aside, I have started a new petition because of feedback received from hq, it's

here

Just heard it on Radio 4 Today prog - well done all you PR campaigners, Just shows how important this online community is, and how fast we can mobilise when necessary.

Only just saw the 'blue box'

but
to see the papers are reporting it! Not a great reflection on...

ps
beautifully put Freckle, couldn't agree more