Well exactly. Anyone can say whatever they like, whenever they like. It's called Free Speech.

Censorship and banning is for the birds. The clamour about it has become hysterical, and it's not even true... If GB news want to sack Fox, that's up to them. Is that cancelling him, or censoring him? No. He will continue to exercise free speech on other platforms that feel more able to accommodate his views.

The BBC have today decided to implement a Social Media leash on people like Lineker (who as a reminder, was also suspended for comments made). Does that mean he is being cancelled too? No. He is free to say what he wants on other platforms. Hell, he's free to break the BBCs new rules if he wants to. But as a corporate entity it can decide if it wants to sack him or not. Capitalism.

All this chat about cancelling and censorship is hyperbole, and only ever gets trotted out when someone on the right is criticised. It's a defence reflex, which actually seems a lot like the same thing you lot get all worked up about, but in reverse.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

A GB News presenter made some offensive comments so the station should be shut down.

Several BBC presenters fiddled with kids for decades so the station must be allowed to operate.

Makes sense

Well we literally live in a capitalist system, so by extension...

Meanwhile, the death of free speech has been greatly exaggerated. As is proved every single day by imbeciles such as Fox

GBNews is attacked because of its shoddy, often amateurish journalism. I expect in time it will mature, its audience will grow and it will iron out the wrinkles, but right now it doesn't cut the mustard.

Put s*** out, get s*** back. Not exactly rocket science

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

'Dan Wootton sacked by MailOnline a day after GB News suspension'.

Even the tories can't stand him.

They thought Hitler was great, but not diabolical Dan.

'GB News was plunged into a fresh impartiality row on Thursday after Conservative deputy party chairman Lee Anderson revealed that he would be interviewing Home Secretary Suella Braverman on the channel'.

A tory love-in masquerading as 'GB News'.

I think what this episode has proven is that the right aren't going to be allowed a 'free speech' channel in the sense that they advertised themselves as.....something that was already pretty lukewarm and cucked conservativism as it was.

Before GBNews....which was doing very well in ratings....whenever the right complained about censorship we would hear coming back to us....'build your own Twitter' or 'build your own media' so on and so forth.

In reality the nature of progressives means that they can't brook any opposing viewpoint and since this outlet was created have obsessively attacked it just for existing.

Their activists continually contact advertisers and form mobs to report to Ofcom as some kind of badge of honour.

Considering the viewing numbers GBNews should have no issues with advertisers but in reality they are scared by these deranged weirdos.....who have a lot of mainstream support....and obviously all the existing competing media channels behind them.

What they do is actually create the space for stronger views than GBNews....but they aren't bright enough to realise that as in their brains GBNews are the far right.

Personally I think a right wing channel will have to operate off shore from the liberal authoritarianism that the British state is moving towards.

The state via its institutional instruments will only allow approved opinions on television. Essentially it's little different to Russia.

The Tories are terrible because they have done nothing to row back the crimes done to civic liberties in this country but when Labour get in......there will be a chilling affect on free speech across the country.

Edited by Stirlingsays (30 Sep 2023 10.12am)

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