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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@Crucial said in British Politics:
DTT subscription services are definitely possible. My point was that they require a set top box.
Not necessarily. You simply use a software token instead of a hardware token on existing STB's and TV's- as used on mobile banking apps. On older sets a CAM module could be used.
My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that while a software token may grant decoding it won’t provide a GUI. There’s no way the beeb would go down the paid route without their own interface
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@Crucial said in British Politics:
There’s no way the beeb would go down the paid route without there own interface
iPlayer provides any GUI- already requires (like Netflix) sign-in and email verification, logs your IP and uniquely identifies the device you're using - and is linked to the TV licencing database. (check out their T&C's)
The BBC has said it expects most of its output to be watched streamed rather than on traditional channels in the next few years. Then Netflix et al will be competing with them head-on.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@Crucial said in British Politics:
There’s no way the beeb would go down the paid route without there own interface
iPlayer provides any GUI- already requires (like Netflix) sign-in and email verification, logs your IP and uniquely identifies the device you're using - and is linked to the TV licencing database. (check out their T&C's)
The BBC has said it expects most of its output to be watched streamed rather than on traditional channels in the next few years. Then Netflix et al will be competing with them head-on.
And we get back to the infrastructure argument again. There’s no way that they will be allowed to not provide a service over terrestrial broadcast.
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Daily Mail reporting that Johnson is going to sell off Channel 4:
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@sparky said in British Politics:
Daily Mail reporting that Johnson is going to sell off Channel 4:
Good. That should raise about 30 quid.
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@sparky said in British Politics:
Daily Mail reporting that Johnson is going to sell off Channel 4:
Not really surprising.
Channel 4 seems to run by a bunch of fruitcakes who seem to think it good business and editorial sense to make up quotes putting BoJo in a bad light, publicly calling him "a proven liar" and having, as it's current affairs anchor, a bloke who likes to chant "Fcuk the tories" at music festivals.
And then expecting them to taken seriously when they say they aren't biased...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@sparky said in British Politics:
Daily Mail reporting that Johnson is going to sell off Channel 4:
Not really surprising.
Channel 4 seems to run by a bunch of fruitcakes who seem to think it good business and editorial sense to make up quotes putting BoJo in a bad light, publicly calling him "a proven liar" and having, as it's current affairs anchor, a bloke who likes to chant "Fcuk the tories" at music festivals.
And then expecting them to taken seriously when they say they aren't biased...
Well, he is a proven liar several times over but apart from that I'm with you all the way. If you add on to their obvious bias the fact that in general they make shit TV, their relevance diminishes even more.
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Great article, again, from the spectator:
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
Great article, again, from the spectator:
She's awesome and the hypocrisy from wokeists so blatant.
"If you have brown skin and/or a vagina you must think this way"- this from the crowd who can't stop telling everyone how anti-racist and anti-sexist they are. I reckon most are cottoning on to this now as wokeology collapses.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
Great article, again, from the spectator:
..and I agree with every bit of that.
Good ferning all round.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
@MajorRage said in British Politics:
Great article, again, from the spectator:
She's awesome and the hypocrisy from wokeists so blatant.
"If you have brown skin and/or a vagina you must think this way"- this from the crowd who can't stop telling everyone how anti-racist and anti-sexist they are. I reckon most are cottoning on to this now as wokeology collapses.
Two of the 4 senior political posts (Chancellor & Home Sec,) are now held by Asians who happen to be Tories.
I'd expect to start seeing articles appearing in the liberal press questioning whether British Asians have sold their soul and lost their identity....
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@Victor-Meldrew That's always the laughable view isn't it? And shows the level of racism from that leftist, woke crowd. If a different coloured person attains something meaningful (within the Tory party) it's because they're coconuts and have sold out. The hypocrisy of these people is breathtaking at times.
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Not British politics but my Melanesian wife has been called a white supremacist before on social media. Some of these people have lost the plot completely.
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@No-Quarter My Zimbabwean mate got the 'race traitor' & 'nazi' taunts from rabid middle class white folk at the Milo event a couple years back. I'd say it did more for her red-pill transition that my arguments ever could.
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@No-Quarter you see that on Social Media all the time.
Someone who is Maori or some other ethnicity and therefore not white, if they disagree with the racist rhetoric they get attacked for selling out or working for the man kinda of BS.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
I'd expect to start seeing articles appearing in the liberal press questioning whether British Asians have sold their soul and lost their identity
I spoke too soon.... This from a Guardian article called "How did British Indians become so prominent in the Conservative party?" Honestly, It's the sort of stuff the more intelligent bigots like Nick Griffin used to churn out for the BNP.
It's pretty distateful stuff.
"The second wave of Indian migrants to Britain were the so-called “twice migrants” who arrived from east Africa in the 1960s and 70s,...the families of our chancellor, home secretary and attorney general are all part of this latter group.
When this group of Indians arrived in Britain, many brought with them the considerable wealth they had accrued (along with a hostility towards black Africans)"
Subtext: Brits of Indian descent who vote Tory are racist and rich
After 30 years of Thatcherite ideology, British Indians were the most pro-Conservative ethnic minority, after the Jewish community. After decades of gradual advance, this number soared to 40% in 2017. In the 2019 election, as the Conservatives chased a realignment towards white northern voters based on racist scaremongering, support in constituencies with high Indian populations increased substantially again.
Thatcher's fault (of course...) that British Indians who vote Tory obviously like "racist scaremongering".......
The Tories have now managed to extend their appeal beyond the “two time” migrants by finding common cause in a project of Islamophobia."
.....and are Islamophobic.
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