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Re:UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption by ndsipa_pomu on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:39PM (#35689912)
The BBC don't seem to care about being impartial when it comes to the royalty. They publish loads of articles about the upcoming coronation and I have yet to see any republican points of view.
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Re:UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption by pydry on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:36PM (#35690721)
They don't care about impartiality in anything, really. Certainly not since Greg Dyke left. The management has increasingly been stuffed with people who are openly Tory.

The recent attack on Gary Lineker for not being "impartial" (not being sufficiently uncritical of Government policy) was particularly galling.

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Re:UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption by hgomersall on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:21PM (#35691941)
There's no such thing as impartiality. Everything has an editorial line which colours what opinions are allowed.
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Re:UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption by ndsipa_pomu on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:28PM (#35692022)
There's degrees of bias though. The BBC has a charter that is supposed to prioritise impartiality, and yet they show strong bias in many topics.
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Re:UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption by hgomersall on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:56PM (#35692323)
That's the point I'm making. It's like having their charter saying that pi is 3: reality is no less malleable.
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Re:UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption by ndsipa_pomu on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:37PM (#35692887)
Well, pi is approximately 3 to a certain degree of precision. To make a bad analogy, the BBC is currently saying that pi is 4 and increasing.
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