Cracking down on the net was like nailing jelly to a wall,Bill Clinton said in 2000. But governments have found myriad ways to filter,block or slow it. And now some nations want nets of their own. Why?
The corporation said on Monday that it would hold a review over how presenters can use social media,including freelancers outside news and current affairs,after Lineker was taken off air over a tweet criticising the government’s immigration policy.
Gary Lineker’s tweet about asylum seeker policy has sparked a debate about free speech,journalistic independence and political cronyism within the beloved BBC.
The British broadcaster is expected to announce that it is reviewing social media guidelines after the controversy over the star presenter’s tweets about immigration policy.
“They’ve turned something that’s completely trivial into an existential crisis for the BBC,” a Labour MP said of the row over a tweet by host Gary Lineker.
The BBC is facing an escalating crisis over its suspension of former England striker Gary Lineker from Match of the Day over a Twitter post commenting on the government’s asylum policy.
The former England football captain has been stood down as host of Match of the Day after likening language around Britain’s asylum policy to language used in Nazi Germany.
Freedom of speech used to be an article of faith for progressives,but no longer. Anything that offends those on the left is now glibly labelled ‘hate speech’.
Suspending students for exercising free speech by saying their actions prevented freedom of speech is quite the contortion. But that’s where the University of Sydney has landed.
Publisher Penguin Random House has since announced it will publish “classic” versions of Dahl’s children’s novels to meet demand.
Maddie Clark and Deaglan Godwin led a protest against Malcolm Turnbull last year. Now they’ve been banned from classes for violating university policies.