Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel
by pmyteh on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:20AM
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We're about to get our own: News UK News (from Murdoch) and GB News (fronted by Andrew Neil) are starting, expressly on the Fox News model. It was thought until quite recently that the requirements for 'due impartiality' and 'due accuracy' in the Broadcast Code precluded expressly partisan TV news (unlike newspapers). But these two have been licenced anyway, so clearly not.
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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel
by M2Ys4U on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:32AM
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Ofcom explicitly can't take pre-emptive action around content issues - the offending content must be actually broadcast before they can do anything.
They can decide that a person is not "fit and proper" to hold a broadcast license, but that's a fairly large hurdle to overcome (and it is, of course, judicially reviewable).
To be honest, this is how it should be. A presumption in favour of broadcasting, but with the ability to shut a broadcast down for repeated and/or egregious violations.