One thing that community groups have as an advantage over bureaucratic organisations

is that when they have their own websites

they don't have to ask permission, they don't have to go through editorial controls

they can just publish what they see as important

Whereas a bureaucratic organisation might have these systems

that prevent real interesting content about really important issues getting out

a community group can just put it on the website that day

they can send it to the people that they know

they can get people talking about it.

If they were forced to be part of a council website

you kind of get that media centric, that controlling nature

and the real message of what that excluded group wanted to say

would get taken control of.