Radio show rebuke shows that State speech policing is here
When a State agency has the power to pull people up on the – legal – way they’ve phrased something, you live in a country in which the State engages in speech policing. You can be in favour of that reality or opposed to it, but that is undeniably the reality.
These musings come following Gript’s recent reporting that staff at a popular radio station were required to participate in terminology training “particularly in relation to asylum and migration” after Coimisiún na Meán investigated a complaint made against one of its broadcasters over the use of the phrase “illegal immigrants” by a contributor discussing US politics.
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