The BBC is not independent. Virtually all MSM are owned by the Corporatist Technocracy type companies whose CEO’s summon Government leaders to Davos, or they’ve been taken over by individuals with the correct opinions who want to ensure the rest of us have the correct opinions too. If this statement were not true, cancel culture wouldn’t exist.
The west is always trying to impose its liberal values on cultures that just don’t want them. It’s up to their citizens to decide. Protests in Iran by Iranian women being a case in point.