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Can't speak for Australia, but Israel in 1970's considered colour television as "a luxury that would increase social gaps"[0], and a similar colour burst erasin
by maratc 4y ago
Can't speak for Australia, but Israel in 1970's considered colour television as "a luxury that would increase social gaps"[0], and a similar colour burst erasing happened. This has lead to a rise of anti-erasing devices that reconstructed the colour burst, returning the colours.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_killer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_killer
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- immibis 4y agoWow, caring about social gaps. Unthinkable today.
- CamperBob2 4y agoUnthinkable because government control at that level of granularity is such a stupid and downright offensive idea to begin with, or because it just plain doesn't work?
- zymhan 4y agoFalse dichotomy alert
- CamperBob2 4y ago'Attempt to rationalize totalitarianism' alert.
- immibis 4y ago"Totalitarianism is when we fix social problems". Thanks for providing an example of people finding it offensive to fix social problems.
- CamperBob2 4y agoIf you think it's the government's place to prohibit color TV on the grounds that it promotes social inequality, you've largely disqualified any opinions you might have about totalitarianism, social science, or color TV.
- immibis 4y agoYes, unthinkable because people generally find that the idea of fixing social problems is offensive, and just blame the victims for not fixing the problems they are suffering from.
- samson8989 4y agoIsrael had a huge balance of trade problem, and color television was an expensive import. So they sold the trade restriction through moral arguments!