The right to be offensive (within House Rules)

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"

- yep, Orwell again, right as usual. I've just had a very interesting chat with the BBC people responsible for moderating comments on this blog. Across the BBC, they deal with up to 15,000 blog comments every day. So it can take a while for referred comments to see daylight. Commentators who "game the system" to deny to others the freedoms they enjoy themselves simply create work for BBC moderators, but it's not in my nature to ban anyone from this blog.