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Has the Gary Linekar Fiasco Taken Freedom of Speech Debates to Another Level?
While we are still trying to figure out what freedoms should be allowed and what shouldn’t, the BBC’s recent meltdown is helping things along.
The UK has been having some great fun over the last week, in case you hadn’t heard.
The whole of the British media, bar the BBC, has honed in on one particular piece of drama that managed to take the spotlight as the main news for at least one night. It all has to do with freedom of speech.
And is a throwback to the madness of media, social media, and the frightening rise of both propaganda and censorship.
Ex-professional footballer and highly-regarded presenter for the BBC’s Match of the Day weekly sports coverage, Gary Linekar, helped to cause a meltdown of the broadcasting corporation.
Never someone to care to keep his political opinions quiet, he had tweeted in response to a new UK bill that was unleashed last week, with the tagline, “Stop the Boats.”
