Small-minded Bureaucracy

[poliphilo]

Does a local council have the power to stop a child posting pictures of her school dinners on her blog? The one in this story thinks it does.

The blog is politely critical, charming, responsible and constructive. It has an international readership. The girl's school is supportive. Only the Council objects.

There's a certain type of jack-in-office that hates any kind of scrutiny- and never saw an independent initiative it didn't want to squash.

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

She is a food critic. They pay that idiot AA Gill to do what she is doing. It is a freedom of speech issue!

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Tar. Feathers. Widespread shame upon the heads of town council.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

The BBC article said that catering staff feared for their jobs and this was the basis for the council's decision. I suppose it's not surprising that The Torygraph neglected to mention it. Who cares about low-income wage earners, when there's a celebrity cause to flog and a government bureaucracy to demonize?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Apparently the council has now backed down. Such is the power of Twitter.