I was banned from using Newsnet Scotland because I expressed an opinion that Glaswegians have the right to call themselves 'Weegies'. I even gave them a list of sites where they [Newsnet Scotland] could see that the nickname 'Weegies' was in common use. It's ironic, really, that an online site professing to back the Scottish peoples against the biasedness of the British media [mainly the propaganda put out by the BBC Scotland newsdesk] is castigating and banning people from using the Scottish language [dialect]. I even asked if the term 'Auld Reekie' [Edinburgh] and 'Kettleboilers' [Dundee] was banned as well; no answer came the reply, apart from being banned from the site with no recourse to appeal.
I wonder if I had used the English nicknames of the Londoners [cockney], Newcastle [Geordies], Liverpool {scousers] or even Birmingham [Brummies] would I have been banned from an English site? I doubt it, but the people who run Newsnet Scotland are not willing to allow the Scottish peoples to use their own nicknames to describe themselves. This is PC [political correctness] gone too far.
Apart from that I still read the articles, which I find interesting, but cannot contribute to the postings; c'est la vie.