Weird and awful: should comments on the BBC website be allowed?
If you run around the street shouting your political ideals at everyone, chances are you will be arrested fairly promptly and thrown into the back of a Police car. You may even be charged with inciting racism or hatred. Chances are that the authorities will deem you a big enough threat that they will at least want to question you and find out what on Earth you needed to do that for. When you leave the Police station, your face will be remembered in the local community and that is a fact.
The BBC website, on the other hand? Well, you could say anything goes…
when it comes to serious matters, BBC, I really think you need to watch what you put out
Recently – probably over the last couple of years more than anything – I have noticed an alarming trend which shows no signs of slowing down soon: people commenting on the BBC website in a way which really isn’t fair, and doesn’t deserve to be there. Often it’ll be people spouting their own opinion in an aggressive way – which I agree they are entitled to to a certain extent – but sometimes it’ll be someone actively encouraging crime or sympathizing with some awful act. The big question here has to be: how come the editors let these comments go through when all these people are trying to do is incite violence or their kind of negative thinking? After all, it’s fair to say that they wouldn’t be allowed in any other medium, truth be told.
One recent angry comment was answered by someone who called himself The commercial estate agent . He replied with a hilarious discourse on the angry-person’s-argument, in this case about a story concerning sea gulls in Bournemouth which had taken to attacking people walking along the sea-front. What happened next was a to-and-fro between the two people, with the words being used getting more and more unsettling. Again, none of this looked to be moderated. My personal theory is that the BBC were enjoying reading all this just as much as the numerous other people across the UK and world.
In the case of weird and wonderful stories being commented on, I’m personally all for it. It livens my day up and puts a whopping great smile upon my face. But when it comes to serious matters, BBC, I really think you need to watch what you put out there. Just because someone chooses to sound off and be offensive doesn’t mean that we all have to have it thrust upon us, does it?
For more on a different angle of the censorship debate, see the video below.
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