Britain's three horsemen of the apocalypse, David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, yesterday, agreed to take the first step towards complete control of the press by agreeing to appoint a press regulator by Royal Charter. The regulator is to be independent of government which is a load of crap because he or she will be appointed by the aforesaid government and therefore cannot be called independent. The government of the day, be it Tory, Lib Dem or Labour will then be able to censor all press stories that they deem to be sensitive or anti-government. The whole Leveson enquiry was a complete farce from the start and was designed to lead us to this very scenario. A group was formed by so called activists called "The Hacked Off Campaign" that turned out to be connected to the Media Standards Trust and also to the pseudo political charity, Common Purpose. In reality they were a pressure group formed to push and lobby government ministers into arriving at this very decision.
The upshot is that we have taken a step into the murky waters of government censorship which starts with the press and then proceeds to media and internet, including bloggers and really anyone who posts anything online. Freedom has once again been compromised in the guise of "protecting" the public from "rogue journalists."
Till next time.
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