Army of Club Penguin

Ias: It is important to note that it is not just the US that has this limitation, my country Ireland has the very same limitations, in the Irish constitution it states:

—(1) It shall be an offence for a person—
( a ) to publish or distribute written material,
( b ) to use words, behave or display written material—
(i) in any place other than inside a private residence, or
(ii) inside a private residence so that the words, behaviour or material are
heard or seen by persons outside the residence,
or
( c ) to distribute, show or play a recording of visual images or sounds,
if the written material, words, behaviour, visual images or sounds, as the case may be, are
threatening, abusive or insulting and are intended or, having regard to all the circumstances,
are likely to stir up hatred

Date: 31/1/10

To: The soldiers and citizens of the Army Of Club Penguin.

From: Iasgae 56, ACP 2nd in Command

RE: Freedom of Speech?:

Well it has been practice in recent times to hammer ACP for its apparent prevention of Freedom of Speech. It is everywhere you look.

Nachos Site:

Pie almost certainly insinuating us.

RPF are big supporters of it, I found the term “freedom of Speech” 20+ times on the second pages of posts on the RPF site, all of them referring to ACP. Here’s just one: From THIS post.

RPF also accusing our supresion of Freedom of Speech.

But here is the question, are we really suppressing freedom of Speech?

Well, here are some common examples of what enemy soldiers say when they come to our chat, and then complain we are suppressing freedom of speech:
“ACP IS AN ARMY OF NOOBS!”

“ACP HAS NO TACTICS!”

“ACP leaders are pathetic”

Every single one of these things is going to start a fight. Yes?

Well, that is clearly the result that will come from making these detrimental comments. A lot of fighting.

(Click to see better) :

This shows that even in America, the land that most of our accusers live, is not completely open to Freedom of Speech.

You see, there is a rather obvious limitation to Freedom of Speech. As the picture says “the right is commonly subject to limitations, such as on “hate speech”. It is this hate speech which is what our accusers usually throw at us on our chat, and results in them getting banned.

(Again, click to see better) :

This is the definition of "Hate Speech" and the limitations of Freedom of Speech.

As you can see, making these statements on ACP chat is going to start a riot/argument, and you have to know that when making such statements. As I have said before, this is a rather obvious limitation, and it is one that we impose on ACP chat. So please, other armies, when you are making your accusations please bear this in mind as it is the reasoning for getting banned, nothing to do with suppressing freedom of speech. Mkay?

~Iaѕgaє5б||a¢ρ 2ι¢

Nono: Just to add to this, here is the bill (which I proposed and had passed last summer) upon which our freedom of speech is based. It is not limiting whatsoever. This is our standard, and anyone who breaks it does not reflect the views of ACP:

The Free Speech Bill

1. No type of punishment shall be administered for criticism, unless the criticism includes offensive language or sexist, racist, or ethnicist content or is a spam message.
2. The “no being ’smart’ to the mods” rule will be removed from the chat rules. However, if this “smartness” is displayed arbitrarily to just infuriate the mod, this falls under the catagory of spam and will be punished as such.
3. This bill applies to both owners and mods.
4. Any violations of this bill can be reported to an owner (unless an owner committed the violation, in which case they shall be reported to a main owner, or a main owner committed this violation, in which case the senate will decide on their punishment through a vote) for punishment to be administered.

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