Yeah , I was here all night . As you said , they were rumors with no substantiated sources . Journalism 101 doesn ' t mean he ' s not an asshole . He essentially asked the same exact question three times and would not drop it even after Herman was making it clear he was not going to give him a definitive answer . <| sep |> Thanks for your encouragement . The thing is , i can ' t imagine myself enjoying being rude . It sometimes just feels like there is no other choice . I haven ' t given up yet . Im sorry that you went through the same things as I did . <| sep |> That helps a lot <| sep |> It ' s Australia looking like a rock , mate . <| sep |> Free speech comes with responsibilities , and I don ' t believe that the Daily Mail takes responsibility for the shit it spreads not least because the owners and decisionmakers at the Mail are people who will always be very far removed from the consequences of their actions . Targeting the advertisers is one of the few ways to actually hurt those people . If I went round my place of work being a massive bigoted twat to people all the time I ' d expect to face consequences as a result , and I don ' t imagine my HR department would consider free speech a particularly good defence of that . So I don ' t want to prevent the Daily Mail from saying whatever it wants , but I want it to be accountable for the words that it publishes because the greatest threat of all to freedom of speech is from those who abuse that right without facing any consequence in doing so .