The state of Victoria, Australia has banned broadcasting of Sky News from the underground loop stations in Melbourne's train network.
The ban comes after Sky (owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp) broadcast an interview with far-right activist Blair Cottrell. Cottrell, the leader of the United Patriots Front, has convictions for arson, burglary and racial vilification, has advocated violence against women and has called for portraits of Adolf Hitler to be hung in school classrooms.
Victoria's transport minister, Jacinta Allen, has defended the decision against claims of censorship, stating that "Hatred and racism have no place on our screens or in our community." ... "If people want to watch Sky News in their own homes, they can do that to their heart's content," she said. "Any material that uses our public transport assets to promote itself needs to be appropriate."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @04:58PM (4 children)
If by civilized places, you mean the places that are living 50 years in the past, then maybe. The reality is that those "civilized places" are where all the uncivilized people live. The people who are proudly ignorant and OK with welfare as long as it doesn't go to people of color.
And more generally fight tooth and nail to fuck over the urban areas that are supporting their lazy asses via taxes.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by VLM on Thursday August 16 2018, @05:20PM
Old fashioned stuff like the sidewalks not being covered in human shit, or women can go out at night without being raped.
Basically a proxy for right wing local government vs left wing local government. If Democrats have been running the place for fifty years the sidewalks will be covered in human shit and you'll get shot walking down the street. If Republicans have been running the place for 50 years you'll get screaming cat ladies complaining about the nazis ruining everything, but aside from that it's a much better place to live.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by VLM on Thursday August 16 2018, @05:24PM
with a side dish of I was merely hedging my observation with "I don't live in a shitty area". I have noticed tons of vandalism and low level street crime in left wing areas, which might limit the ability to "have TVs everywhere to make the Boomers happy" if in a left wing run area that means they'd get stolen, smashed, spray painted, etc. So I'd theorize like Coastal California Urban Blue Hellholes have few TVs for Boomers but I bet the Boomers really want TVs everywhere anyway. Or maybe not.
Or in summary, naturally, in Democrat controlled areas you can't have TVs everywhere; the people are too poor and the crime rate is too high; BUT correcting for that I bet the boomers still want their TV screen soma dosage.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Thursday August 16 2018, @08:10PM (1 child)
Who is dependant on who? Stop the continuous movement of goods into urban areas from outside and a week later they'll look like the zombie apocalypse.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 17 2018, @12:42PM
you mean, two days later.
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