Comments on: Snow Censorship

By: Preacher

Preacher — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:46:03 +0000

Whoever it was it was a touch of genius.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:10:38 +0000

Higgs

Many thanks for this. I’ve added your very helpful research as a postscript to the original blog post.

Cheers.

By: Higgs

Higgs — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:08:31 +0000

Bent Society, after a little research I may be able to add light to your skepticism. The BBC DID apparently censor the image (there are discussions about this on various pages across the internet). At 10 o’clock the Market Square webcam goes offline and whatever was on the screen at that time freezes on their site until 8 in the morning. The image wasn’t censored until later on that night so was displayed “accurately” for an hour or so before someone clocked it at the beeb.

However the same image WAS displayed all night on the Nottingham Council website which was NOT censored. So effectively the BBC are lying.

The two webcam urls are here -they both display the same pictures (unless the bbc decide to modify theirs of course):

http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/www/marketsquare/webcam.asp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/webcams/old_market_square_webcam.shtml

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:00:03 +0000

Visit the Bent Society Blog to try to get to the truth behind this. (story is here: http://bentsocietyblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/crafty-censorship-is-at-centre-of-our.html )…

By: Bent Society

Bent Society — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:12:47 +0000

If the BBC deleted the “C” word then how did you get the picture with the same time on it with the word deleted? You should have saved this one for April fools day Qmarc. I like the double-twist-protest on the BBC censorship though…still gets us thinking.

And then what if the original “C” word image is a fraud? In that case you put the record straight.

How will we ever know?

I like it.