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liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If you’re asking this and trying to argue this genuinely, then you’ve entirely lost the plot.

‘broadcasting’ doesn’t enter into this. Kids will do this regardless, and have done this regardless for much longer than the UK has had access to any type of video media.

The only difference is kids can now show their stupidity to the world… Which they have been able to do for the last 40 years to some extent. We don’t call a personal website broadcasting, because by no written definition could it be considered that. Neither is YouTube broadcast media, nor any internet thing (strictly speaking).

Neither is Tiktok, nor will be what comes after it, and so on.

Now we could change the definition of broadcast to mean any internet site or app and apply broadcast standards to it… but that just means the UK loses access to the Internet. No one would comply, because what power does a tiny island in perpetual economic decline have? If UK didn’t have any advertisers sites would already ignore it.

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