When people type “http://j4mb.org.uk” to reach our website, the first blog piece(s) they’ll see will be one or more that we’ve set up for that very purpose. For some time the first piece has been one titled, The Gosport War Memorial Hospital 1990s opioid deaths scandal. Dr Jane Barton, 77, has been a case study in female unaccountability for 35+ years which contains links to a number of BBC pieces.
Earlier today a regular commenter, cp, posted the following in response to that blog piece:
“With all the current publicity over the ‘Assisted Dying’ bill being held up in the House of Lords, there have been several BBC articles where ‘Have Your Say’ (HYS) has been made available.
As a caveat to potential abuses of such a system, I simply linked one of the BBC’s own, historic articles on Jane Barton. [J4MB: The article was published in June 2018, and the same link is in our own article on the scandal.]
This has been sufficient to have me banned from making any further comment on anything on BBC HYS. My direct debit to the BBC licence fee has been duly cancelled.”
I replied to cp, as follows:
“cp, did you include that link in your contribution to HYS?”
He replied:
“I sure did, Mike! The comment, with the embedded link, was taken down within 10 minutes. So I tried again, pointing out that the link was a BBC resource from the public domain. This time, the result was ‘comment removed’ immediately. On the third attempt, I received an e-mail from the BBC, informing me that all of my future comments would be subject to scrutiny.
Since then (about 3 days ago), I’ve commented on a range of topics, dear to my heart, under my moniker ‘Chris Cross’. Always get the same response: ‘We’re just double-checking this comment.’
The process of double-checking must take >3 days, as none have been posted. As this amounts to censorship if you stray from ‘the narrative’, I have decided not to subsidise the BBC any longer.”
Our thanks to cp for bringing this matter to our attention.
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