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BBC website criticised for failing to remove Jesus insults
The BBC has come under pressure to remove blogs on its website forum pages which refer to Jesus as a ‘bastard’, according to the Daily Mail.The development is the latest in a series of offensive comments the website has allowed to remain up despite their potential to insult millions.
With regards [sic] to the specific remarks about Jesus, the BBC has allowed the comments to remain up for a number of weeks despite complaints and appeals from various religious groups for them to be taken down.
Religious groups were also angered after it emerged that the BBC had at the same time taken steps to censor comments which could be interpreted as being offensive to Muslims, resulting in accusations of a misbalance [sic] in the moderating of the site.
Full story at Christian Today.
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