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Re:Phone is about to stop being yours by testing22321 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @10:54PM (#47943697)
You could film and put it on your tv, but you couldn’t create and distribute to the medium at large
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Re:Phone is about to stop being yours by kombookcha on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @01:01AM (#47944346)
Not with the same reach, but some people kinda could! Specifics depended on where you were in the world, but it existed and to some extent still does. In spite of a very rough decade and a half since 2010 culling many of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-access_television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_television_in_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindon_Viewpoint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_television_in_Austra...

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Re:Phone is about to stop being yours by Jtarii on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:41AM (#47946463)
Weirdo eccentrics sure found a way to distribute their shot on home video b-movies.
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