There has been a discussion of late about the public ownership of the BBC. The public pay for the BBC but it is in fact the mouthpiece of the Government and censorship is the name of the game.

When it comes to the news they dictate what we see and don’t see, live journalism is dead.

Every tv station and every newspaper is owned by foreign companies, I would go so far as to say Britain if that’s what you want to call it, is already in the hands of foreign conglomerates.

Censorship in most cases is a threat to society and is to be rightfully challenged when misused.

But how do we fair in Scotland….well not much better actually?

Ask for anything under FOI and more than likely it will come back heavily redacted…secrecy abounds as does stupidity!

A warning to groups and Parties in Scotland, censorship will lose good people when those with influence use non-existent lists of words or phrases to censor freedom of speech!

Free speech is the cornerstone of Direct Democracy anything else is not acceptable. We are all responsible for our actions and the consequences thereof but we cannot dictate what others do and say, that is not democratic!

“In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

Take that freedom away and we add another link in the chain around our necks.

We cannot condemn our government for censorship if we practice it ourselves albeit in a lesser way.

So let us be careful when judging others because we will lose good people along the way.

Joan McDowall.