Well if you disappear from the face of the planet in a few weeks time, we’ll know why!

LOL

If I disappear be sure you send a search party to look for me in the union basement

Certainly as crew we were warned that we were not to spread rumours about certain union events being appalling, but I think that might have had more to do with the poor financial status of the union.

I know it doesn’t help the discussion but I don’t really want to post specifics because the individual who originally divulged the information has already requested not to be named in asking for the facebook message to be removed and so it just wouldn’t be right for me to go and re-post it here.

However I will say that it would be something that if it was the UK government we were talking about rather than the SU then there would be a media frenzy and the public would demand answers.

Following on from that anaology, the government would need a court order to stop something going to press, seemingly the SU feel they need no such thing to censor its members, so there is a disparity.

I’m not saying there isn’t a single occasion when censorship wouldn’t be appropriate, but I am saying that freedom of the press and freedom of speech doesn’t exist for students of LUU in the same way it exists for members of the public in the UK, and for me that presents a problem.

I accept my argument might be a rant, I accept that there may be flaws and exceptions to what I originally said and indeed what I am saying now, but the fact remains I have more rights to speak out about the UK government than my students union, and that just doesn’t make any sense to me at all.

If someone would care to explain why that should be the case then I’d be happy to listen, but for me it just doesn’t wash in the slightest.

I do take what you are saying though. The problem is how do you know a given censorship is because the student is lying rather than the fact the student is saying something that is true but that the SU just doesn’t want people to hear…..