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> UK’s censorship agency, Ofcom I think that is a bit of a stretch. Ofcom is the telecommunications regulator. They are responsible for censorship, but to be
by jimnotgym 11mo ago
> UK’s censorship agency, Ofcom
I think that is a bit of a stretch. Ofcom is the telecommunications regulator. They are responsible for censorship, but to be a censorship agency it would have to be your primary role. Starting a blog like this, suggests everything below is going to be a bit OTT. Instead of censorship we have propaganda.
Ofcom license amateur radio, but spend no time censoring it that I know of. Last week they fined Virgin media for making a hash of converting vulnerable people from analogue to digital phone lines, without regards to their telehealth monitoring systems. That sort of mundane thing is Ofcoms raison d'etre
- monsecchris 11mo agoThe purpose of an entity is what it does, not what its mission statement says it should be doing.
- squidbeak 11mo agoNice soundbite, but no, the purpose of (for instance) the Royal Mail isn't to funnel postmasters to jail.
- phendrenad2 11mo agoYou're missing the point. Is it better to call a thing by what it does, or what it (giving the benefit of the doubt here) claims to do?
- jimnotgym 11mo agoMost of what it does is oodles of boring regulation of things like radio spectrums . So yes, it is a telecommunication regulator.
- phendrenad2 11mo agoThat brings up another question: Is it better to call things by what they primarily do, or what they do that's relevant to the discussion? If I put sandbags in front of my house to stop a flood, I don't call it a "beach".