The Independent newspaper has been for quite a while a digital newspaper that often allows comments made by readers, but it has a very pecular moderation style allowing comments that actively promote civil disobedience and acts of aggression. Today, The Indepent reported that the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had indicated that the national flag should be seen in all public buildings. The moderators of the Independent publicly allowed comments that implied that Britain is now National Socialist Germany and Boris Johnson is the equivalent of Adolf Hitler simply because he asked for British flags in public buildings, something that is the norm worldwide and nobody has been saying that the USA is National Socialist Germany because US flags appear on public buildings.
The Independent allows comments of individuals that call Police officers in charge of enforcing legislation introduced for the common good to protect peoples' health 'bastards',. For several days, there have been disturbances in London and in other cities. In Bristol, Police officers were attacked, Police vehicles torched, Police buildings damaged and glass windows broken by individuals who have found a home on the pages of The Independent.
The Independent, as well as other newspapers including Metro and Evening Standard and London Live - a television channel - are owned by a former KGB agent that also happens to be a Russian oligarch called Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev. His son passes as a charitable man and socialite, but the tone of media he owns is decidedly anti-British. Paradoxically, the son of a former KGB agent was made a Member of the House of Lords.
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| Alexander Lebedev |
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| Evgeny Lebedev |
You can draw whichever conclussions you might draw about the state of Britain and of some British media. This is happening in the United Kingdom.
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