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Comment More serious issues with Ofcom. (Score 2) 113

For a start they failed to prosecute broadcasters who fail to observe purdah during elections including the BBC, thus proving its motivation is in perserving the status quo.

Ofcom generally fails to prosecute news broadcasters that fail to observe impartiality rules.

BBC runs a program called "Question Time" which presents a false public narrative even stretching to hiring actors to pose as members of the public to support its falsehoods. It has never been prosecuted by Ofcom for doing this.

Ofcom failed to revoke Sky/BSkyB licences despite the News International phone-hacking scandal .

BBC / BBC Scotland broadcasts of Sturgeon’s coronavirus / Covid-19 daily briefings gave undue platform, breached impartiality or “platformed” SNP views without sufficient opposition response . Ofcom never prosecuted.

BBC misrepresented certain rulings or statements in relation to the International Court of Justice, and continued to do so even following corrections. Some complainants allege misleading framing. Ofcome never prosecuted.

Ofcom failed to investigate or sanction Panorama for its ‘Is Labour Antisemitic’ programme featuring distortions / zooming / face distorting of Corbyn”

In the BBC documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, critics noted that the narrator was the son of a Hamas official and argued that this conflict of interest / relation should have been disclosed; further, that viewers were misled by omission. Ofcom stated it would investigate , but the investigation did not surface.

With regards to websites such as 4chan - there have been NO high-profile prosecutions of UK-registered sites - instead it pursues content originating abroad.

MailOnline a website full of clickbait / false headlines: dozens of press regulator (IPSO) rulings, Ofcom has not acted on its “harmful content” policy.

The Telegraph & Express online purveyed misinformation during elections & health crises resulting in numerous complaints on social media, but Ofcom once again failed to act.

Ofcom should get its own house in order before pursuing websites that are funded and run in other countries - regardless of its perceived crimes.

Comment Re:...but Trump Says (Score 1) 70

If the Ember trend (solar+wind continuing to meet new electricity demand and strongly displace fossil generation) continues and scales up aggressively only in electricity, then by 2100 we’d likely avoid ~0.2–0.35 C of warming relative to a BAU electricity case — a useful and meaningful improvement, but not a return to pre-industrial “normal.” To actually reverse global temperature to pre-industrial levels would require removing thousands of gigatonnes of CO (net) — a feat that, at realistic removal rates, would take centuries to millennia.

Comment Falsehoods and Greenwash (Score 1) 31

This Guardian piece leans heavily on the growth of big trees in pristine Amazon patches to paint a picture of resilience, but it’s misleading. Most of the forest is fragmented or deforested, and large areas are now net carbon emitters, not sinks. Highlighting a small subset of intact trees while downplaying widespread degradation risks greenwashing the crisis, giving readers a false sense that the Amazon is largely healthy and climate-positive. Protecting tiny pockets of mature forest does not offset the massive carbon losses from agriculture, fires, and road expansion.

Comment Re:People who hire illegals will still hire illega (Score 0, Troll) 80

The thing is only about 10 % of what Daily Mail rhetoric labels Illegal "Boat People" are as such, the actual number of illegals is incredibly small - the rest are legitimate asylum seekers coming to this vile racist country out of sheer desperation. I certainly wouldnt come here out of choice.
Dont fall for the propaganda that is shaping UK policy.

Comment Racist Daily Mail Rhetoric Now Shapes UK Policy (Score -1, Troll) 80

Keir Starmer dresses himself up as a safe pair of hands. But his digital ID scheme shows his true face: a weak, authoritarian stooge dancing to the Daily Mail’s tune.

He claims it will stop “boat people.” Nonsense.

The majority crossing the Channel are genuine refugees - Syrians, Afghans, Eritreans with asylum success rates as high as 99%.

Starmer knows this, yet still scapegoats the vulnerable to look “tough.”

What will digital ID really do?

It will turn Britain into a surveillance state where people of colour and migrants are harassed, stopped, and forced to prove their right to exist.

It’s not about security. It’s about institutionalising racism.

Starmer isn’t protecting Britain.

He’s protecting his headlines.

He isn’t standing up to right-wing media.

He’s taking dictation from them.

This isn’t leadership. It’s cowardice.

It exposes Starmer for what he really is: a hollow opportunist willing to trade freedom for fear.

Comment 2050 will be so much worse (Score 2) 81

If we carry on the path we are currently on its laughable we are even talking about 2050 being hospitable at all, i mean by 2030 clean water will be too scarce for everyone on the planet and all the domesticated animals we eat. Food Shortages and Crop Failures are commonplace today.
It is incredible to me like were acting as if we have time to procrastinate.

Comment We already know this. (Score 0) 44

Why are we wasting time, money and research into something we know already?
Once again time wasted , money spent and no action taken.

Once again , there is no reason to refute the fact that we are on course for extinction
with only a 5% chance of changing trajectory.

Once the bottom of the food chain goes its gone forever.

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