Blocked by Marianna Spring

 

I have had the dubious honour of being blocked by Marianna Spring on Twitter. She is not my only hate-follow, but she is the one I reply to the most. The BBC propagandist has about eighty-six thousand followers and probably the majority are her critics. I'm guessing this because most of her comments are not complimentary. She has complained in several interviews that she receives messages that include death threats and misogynist abuse. Now, ironically, none of those kinds of messages have ever come from me. I have been very disapproving of her and even sarcastic, as was the case with my final Tweet to her, but I've always been polite. The fact that she blocked me could well be because she knows who I am; in fact she is probably reading these words right now (in which case I say: Marianna, get a better job!). All I did was reply to a Tweet in which she was revealing a photo of herself taken for the graphics of her new Radio 4 show Marianna in Conspiracyland. I posted the image you see below and the words: "This one is more apt". I would never endorse, in fact I totally oppose, any personal attacks that are illegal or insulting directed towards Marianna, or anyone for that matter; but she has to accept that many people oppose what she is doing. She is attempting to create an informational dictatorship. Her latest effort is "BBC Verify" and it is as cringeworthy as its name suggests, see: https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1660536033572794369. Another possibility is that she, or whoever is managing her social media, would rather block reasonable and polite critics than internet thugs who only hurl abuse at her. Then she can make the false point that the whole Conspirasphere consists solely of people like that.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/04/rdh-vs-bbc-update.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/05/free-merthyr-tydfil-one.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-friend-to-all.html.