Originally Posted by DingerX
From a Professional Philosophical point of view,
there is a distinction between statements of opinion and statements of fact. Statements of opinion propose (but, unlike arguments, do not seek to demonstrate) interpretations for facts.
As pointed out earlier, allegations of fact also have legal significance. This is particularly true in a board like this one which is purportedly by and for professionals, yet anonymous and available to all (Welcome to one of the problems of the internet).
So any statement claiming a factual incident where a given flight from a given airline busts safety regulations on a given day is going to attract attention. And you can bitch about Ryanair's counter-allegations all you want, but while there's an investigation in process that will determine the facts -- in a legal sense at least -- there's no reason to make statements of fact about the situation without indicating sources.
So this means that the general public should just accept the reports from the Egyptian CAA on the Flash Air crash, simply because they have no access to the facts ?
In other words, if you control the facts then you can post what you want!
I think that Danny should publish the letters he has received from any lawyer from any Airline that has forced him to remove a tread and put it in the Legal Bin or at least send a copy to those posters that were named in it.
I believe that Ryainair, taken into account the channel 4 saga, has every reason to avoid this from happening again.They are not being treated in the same way as others.
If clearly the Egyptian CAA is not up to speed (on two occasions this was proven by facts NTSB) why is Egyptair allowed to fly to the UK?
Is it not
a fact by itself that people are indeed posting on these issues?
Maybe Nietzsche was right:
"it´s all about power and God is death"