Heather Herbert

The effect of manipulative censorship

Beth and I spent a lot of the summer going around pride events collecting submissions for Gillian MacKay’s buffer zone bill. As well as organising a protest in Edinburgh in at the SCOTUS decision to reverse Row Vs Wade.

The original picture looks like this

Obviously, the newspaper can’t print a sign with the word “CUNTS” on it and I’m not accusing Catriona Stewart of deliberately misrepresentation Beth’s position. But it’s clear that censorship can lead to a misrepresentation of the facts.