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A cynic would say that the BBC is preparing the public for the Online Safety Bill, where many small online ventures will become unviable.

simonswords82 4y ago
Sadly the beacon of balanced reporting that the BBC once was is now a distant memory. It's politicised, click bait nonsense just like most of the news on the Internet. So your assessment is more than likely accurate.
postsantum 4y ago
That's what I thought. BBC and their likes lost all credibility and the first thing the reader should wonder about is what agenda they are pushing today
revelio 4y ago
Yes. It depresses me no end that this comes from the BBC. How predictable. You can argue that the Californian sun-always-shines mentality is unrealistic, but you can't argue with the results it generates. Perhaps the British attitude is just normal and not anything in particular, but compared to the attitude of the people at the top it's a culture of defeatism. I think it may also be reflective of the culture and mentality at the BBC specifically, though. It's well known their staff is completely dominated by Guardian readers. These are people whose idea of success in life is taking control of a powerful pre-existing institution. The sort of people who make wild bets on unintuitive beliefs and end up disrupting industries are pretty much opposed to that value system and it shines through in all sorts of subtle ways.
- okeuro49 4y ago
  I wouldn't usually be so cynical, but I noticed recently how the BBC was responding to the inflation crisis, by somehow making it out to be some external thing that nobody could control, and nobody could have predicted. When in fact there were many people saying that the massive state spending programs during coronavirus, were going to contribute to a high rise in inflation, and that policies such as paying the wages of the entire middle class were not going to come without a cost. The BBC manufactured consent for those state policies, then now act like inflation is some random incident, like the weather.
  - revelio 4y ago
    Yes their bias and lack of reliability will be their undoing in the end rather than any defeatist attitude, but one of the reasons to not set up state backed entities in the first place is how hard it is to get rid of them even when they start failing at their core mission.

simonswords82 4y ago

Sadly the beacon of balanced reporting that the BBC once was is now a distant memory. It's politicised, click bait nonsense just like most of the news on the Internet. So your assessment is more than likely accurate.

postsantum 4y ago

That's what I thought. BBC and their likes lost all credibility and the first thing the reader should wonder about is what agenda they are pushing today

revelio 4y ago

Yes. It depresses me no end that this comes from the BBC. How predictable. You can argue that the Californian sun-always-shines mentality is unrealistic, but you can't argue with the results it generates. Perhaps the British attitude is just normal and not anything in particular, but compared to the attitude of the people at the top it's a culture of defeatism. I think it may also be reflective of the culture and mentality at the BBC specifically, though. It's well known their staff is completely dominated by Guardian readers. These are people whose idea of success in life is taking control of a powerful pre-existing institution. The sort of people who make wild bets on unintuitive beliefs and end up disrupting industries are pretty much opposed to that value system and it shines through in all sorts of subtle ways.

okeuro49 4y ago
I wouldn't usually be so cynical, but I noticed recently how the BBC was responding to the inflation crisis, by somehow making it out to be some external thing that nobody could control, and nobody could have predicted. When in fact there were many people saying that the massive state spending programs during coronavirus, were going to contribute to a high rise in inflation, and that policies such as paying the wages of the entire middle class were not going to come without a cost. The BBC manufactured consent for those state policies, then now act like inflation is some random incident, like the weather.
- revelio 4y ago
  Yes their bias and lack of reliability will be their undoing in the end rather than any defeatist attitude, but one of the reasons to not set up state backed entities in the first place is how hard it is to get rid of them even when they start failing at their core mission.