Presumably a joke like Netflix’s Death to 2021’s Duke of Deadinburgh wouldn’t fly again then.
Not keen in the slightest on Ofcom regulating content.
I don’t want to be protected by the government from Netflix’s offensive content!!
Hopefully they’ll step in and prevent Netflix from ending an offensive number of shows early.
What does this actually mean in practise? The BBC and other catch-up services don’t really do much to protect under 18s from harmful content. All they really do is flag certain content as mature, which is pretty much the same as what Netflix does. Also, the majority of content on streaming services is fictional, so the principles of fairness, accuracy and privacy don’t really apply, either
What content do any of these services have that would require ‘intervention’ by an authority that allows the broadcast of (say) Naked Attraction or (violent stuff)? Is there any documentary / current event programming that falls short of OFCOM standards?
What is there to be regulated? Do they publish news or fakenews? Usually, aren’t news publications the biggest culprit?
Regulated like how? I know Liz and co don’t like the crown but I mean….
Let’s just say it like it is. Boris’s mate ‘Murdoch” has asked for this and Boris must comply if he doesn’t want the mostly Murdoch and foreign owned media to turn against him and his gov
Streaming services already show warnings for content including trigger warnings for things like Self Harm. They already have kid accounts you can use to prevent access to certain content. They basically tick every box that regulators would want so it is hard to see how it will be materially different unless a public outrage leads to trying to get something removed.
What’s the obsession with the regulation hard on this country has? These same jokers thought it would be feasible to enforce ID checks for porn browsing.
This isn’t going to change much…
Only thing on Netflix that I think would’ve raised eyebrows at Ofcom was Cuties….
How are they going to regulate American companies? This sounds like encroachment.
Given Netflix release of Cuties…
Yeah, I’m not about to shed a tear for a streaming service I’m already on the fence of cutting out.
Government yet again tries to hammer the square peg of digital streaming into the round hole of linear TV broadcasting, because that’s all they know how to do and these newfangled technologies scare them. Regulations like these make sense when you could turn on the TV and see something you might not have been expecting, because broadcasters set the schedules and broadcast continuously. Streaming is 100% user-controlled, if you don’t want to see something, don’t choose to watch it – and do some research into what a show is like before you do.
Also:
>The policy document also included plans to privatise Channel 4, currently owned by the government and paid for by advertising.
It’s publicly owned. Not “owned by the government”. We own it – the people of the UK. The government are simply administering it on our behalf, and (at the moment) very poorly.
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Presumably a joke like Netflix’s Death to 2021’s Duke of Deadinburgh wouldn’t fly again then.
Not keen in the slightest on Ofcom regulating content.
I don’t want to be protected by the government from Netflix’s offensive content!!
Hopefully they’ll step in and prevent Netflix from ending an offensive number of shows early.
What does this actually mean in practise? The BBC and other catch-up services don’t really do much to protect under 18s from harmful content. All they really do is flag certain content as mature, which is pretty much the same as what Netflix does. Also, the majority of content on streaming services is fictional, so the principles of fairness, accuracy and privacy don’t really apply, either
What content do any of these services have that would require ‘intervention’ by an authority that allows the broadcast of (say) Naked Attraction or (violent stuff)? Is there any documentary / current event programming that falls short of OFCOM standards?
What is there to be regulated? Do they publish news or fakenews? Usually, aren’t news publications the biggest culprit?
Regulated like how? I know Liz and co don’t like the crown but I mean….
Let’s just say it like it is. Boris’s mate ‘Murdoch” has asked for this and Boris must comply if he doesn’t want the mostly Murdoch and foreign owned media to turn against him and his gov
Streaming services already show warnings for content including trigger warnings for things like Self Harm. They already have kid accounts you can use to prevent access to certain content. They basically tick every box that regulators would want so it is hard to see how it will be materially different unless a public outrage leads to trying to get something removed.
What’s the obsession with the regulation hard on this country has? These same jokers thought it would be feasible to enforce ID checks for porn browsing.
This isn’t going to change much…
Only thing on Netflix that I think would’ve raised eyebrows at Ofcom was Cuties….
How are they going to regulate American companies? This sounds like encroachment.
Given Netflix release of Cuties…
Yeah, I’m not about to shed a tear for a streaming service I’m already on the fence of cutting out.
Government yet again tries to hammer the square peg of digital streaming into the round hole of linear TV broadcasting, because that’s all they know how to do and these newfangled technologies scare them. Regulations like these make sense when you could turn on the TV and see something you might not have been expecting, because broadcasters set the schedules and broadcast continuously. Streaming is 100% user-controlled, if you don’t want to see something, don’t choose to watch it – and do some research into what a show is like before you do.
Also:
>The policy document also included plans to privatise Channel 4, currently owned by the government and paid for by advertising.
It’s publicly owned. Not “owned by the government”. We own it – the people of the UK. The government are simply administering it on our behalf, and (at the moment) very poorly.