You're dreaming Alan,

I don't see any of my posts missing and I am certainly not Graham Young.

At this point, I think I shall retire as well with a basic summary:

1 You have not disproven one iota of Calum Thwaites' article.

2 The students and others have suffered damage in costs time wastage and reputational damage through the misuse of the flawed 18c.

3 18c irrespective of its original intentions, can and has been used as a weapon against free speech

4 The sheer vitriol and irrationality of your crusade against The Australian leaves questions as to your sanity.

And as George Carlin said 'Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.'

Sorry, SM. Wrong on all counts.

1. Mr Thwaites wrote this: “Fairfax media's coverage … consistently ignored the story for a full 6 months …”
Paragraph 5. Correct?
That’s easily proven false by reading the many Fairfax articles in the early months. See above.
His other errors have been exposed, with reference to the evidence, at Independent Australia.

2. S18C is perfectly fine. It requires no amendment whatsoever.
The damage suffered – by many people, including the students – is due to widespread misunderstandings about the RDA following deliberate misreporting thereupon.

3. No-one has ever had their rights to free speech curtailed by the correct application of S18C. Not ever. Not once. The fact that Ms Prior lost her action adds strength to this claim.

4. If The Australian had respected the privacy of the students and the other participants, in accordance with the principles of all media codes of ethics, they would not have suffered anything like the stress, strain, anxiety and loss of reputation they claim to have endured.

If The Australian had not conducted its campaign of misrepresentation of s18C since 2011, this whole sorry saga would never have begun in the first place.

Cheers, SM.
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Hi Alan, none of your posts have been deleted, and it is offensive of you to suggest that they have. Everyone who posts here knows that I don't delete posts unless they breach forum rules, and while your posts are bizarre, they do not breach forum rules. I also inform the offender that they have breached the rules and their post has been deleted, and sometimes apply a penalty, depending on the gravity of the breach.

It is also against forum rules to operate a sock puppet, and I bounced one (posing as two) posters the other day for just that. Anyway, anyone who reads SM and reads me knows our writing styles are quite distinct.

Your detection of a conspiracy on OLO, where none exists, could be quite a useful tool to use in terms of analysing your claims of a conspiracy against S18C from The Australian.

Alan,

Lying again?

Your claims that No-one has ever had their rights to free speech curtailed by the correct application of S18C is complete rubbish.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/why-abolish-18c-consider-this-vexatious-complaints-threat-to-free-speech/news-story/fffa3ed01b6b8c73768ac1d2ad07bed8

In yet another abuse of 18c Sokhom Prins — the author of emails referring to writers at The Australian as members of a “WHITE RACIST POSSE has taken members of the press to court in spite of the AHRC dismissing it out of hand.

While Sokhom Prins has no chance of winning the case, she has inflicted a considerable cost on the defendants, who even if costs are awarded are unlikely to be able to recover much.

As for your claim wrt Fairfax, it was roughly August when Cindy prior launched her vexacious court action, and March when Fairfax first reported. This is roughly 6 months... Correct?