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ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 29 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

Was a interesting reaction from some in the fediverse stating they would block the BBC instance etc. In reality how welcome are entity's that are seen as corporate?

I also cannot understand why the BBC news is not live, possibly they are experimenting with the moderation and management elements. I guess the news feed would get hit harder than Radio 4.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago

    There are some on mastodon that want to live in a fairly defensively disconnected/defederated bubble (compared to many other instances or lemmy/kbin).

    And, IMO, that's totally fine and good ... freedom of association gives people and instances that power and it should be embraced when people chose to exercise it TBH, so long as it's done by admins in a way that isn't too autocratic against their users and open and transparent.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Iirc, the big instance declaring immediately that it would defederate with them was one that’s very well known for being strict with moderation and had firm rules about anti-trans instances. Because the BBC has a history of being anti-trans, they defederated.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The BBC has a history of being antitrans?

    That's quite a revelation to me, it has more of a reputation of being extremely liberal and indeed any even remotely right winger here usually whinges and moans about how "woke" it is 🤷🏻‍♂️

    Do you know what in particular triggered their stance that they believed the BBC anti-trans?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Do you know what in particular triggered their stance that they believed the BBC anti-trans?

    There is a series by Shaun (a Youtuber) about anti trans stuff at the BBC and one article in particular.

    First of 4 Videos is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4buJMMiwcg

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Thank you for that, most interesting.

    It's odd given their usually quite liberal stance... I wonder if there some old conservatism creeping in with the Tories being in power for so long..?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Sadly in UK transphobia seems to be pretty common in liberals and liberal institutions. I think that is because in UK the idea to connect transphobia with "womens rights" was really successful and this results in otherwise really liberal / left leaning / feminist individuals & groups to be actively anti-trans. As far as i know even otherwise trust worthy news papers like the guardian plattform anti trans talking points.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    That's a total misunderstanding of what the BBC is. As a public broadcaster representing the whole of the UK, it has a duty to represent all views. While I personally disagree with them, gender critical or TERF views are extant in the UK at present and the public conversation on where this will all land legally is still ongoing, therefore they have an obligation to hear from all sides, no matter how unpalatable one of them may be to some.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Lol no, because as far as i can tell they dont do it with other forms of bigotry like racism.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidance/impartiality-and-racism

    BBC is not impartial on racism.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Because by and large society has decided that racism is a bad and unacceptable thing. There's pockets of it about but no one is taking that seriously. The current discussion around gender and how society moves to accommodate peoples exploration of their identity in the modern world is still very much ongoing.

    I don't agree with the gender critical or "TERF" arguments, I'm very much of the belief that everyone should be allowed to identify and live as their chosen gender with access to the rights and services that dictates. However some people don't, for various reasons.

    We can call them bigots and attempt to shun them and hide them away, but it's not going to stop smaller news outlets that are actually bigoted like GBNews or Talk TV having them on without the pro-Trans counterpoint that the BBC would have.

    Better to shine a light on these people and force them to justify their beliefs in a neutral environment than spred then in one that's already in agreement with them no?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    It's a difficult design but generally speaking I don't think news has an obligation to provide both sides.

    A. They should not run editorials

    B. If they do run editorials presenting both sides is equal to endorsement.

    This isn't the 1960s where the only way to be heard is via letters to the editor.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Different presenters can have different positions on issues no?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    There are lots of people who just want to hear that they are right, that others agree with them. They would rather hang out in an echo chamber where it's constantly reinforced that their opinions are right rather than hear people who disagree with them.

    Personally I value hearing and understanding why others have different opinions than I do.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I hate defederation with a passion and I'm close to leaving lemmy.world because of its rash defederating. There is no reason to restrict users based on what the few leaders believe.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Most of the defeds I have seen have had pretty serious community interaction prior to the decision. You need to stop seeing admins as leaders. And so does everyone else.

    An admin certainly has some power over their instance, but the users are not locked into that instance at all. They are not telling people what they can see, they are telling people what they are willing to host, or not host.

    Everyone deserves a voice. But nobody is responsible for giving them a megaphone and a box to stand on in their yard.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    It’s very different than a site like Facebook or Twitter banning someone. Nobody is kicking them off the internet… just making sure their own site only shows what they want. If you want to see whatever they defederated with, of course you can go there directly or to another instance.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's kind of ironic as despite having "corporation" in the name, the BBC is quite a "socialist" endeavour on how it's funded and available to all uk citizens for a flat fee.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Socialist as in they send enforcers to your house who have the right to force themselves inside and check how many screens you have got feeding government propaganda into your skull.

    You have to pay a TV licence to be lied to. Pretty sweet.

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