23 Jun
2014
23 Jun
'14
2:37 a.m.
On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 00:51 +0100, Adam Sampson wrote:
The Communications Act 2003 has a requirement to not
include "offensive
and harmful" material (which Ofcom interpret in a fairly liberal way,
taking context into account), and a delay's a pretty good way of doing
so when the presenter can't otherwise control what interviewees might
say.
What happens if a radio station does offend this commandment?
In Germany you are free to speak out obscenities, OTOH for even correct
political statements that are against the "vision" of Germany and
allies, the editor gets fired, but nobody will sue the radio station,
but there's one exception when black helicopters are nearly used, those
guys definitively will be sued, while AFAIK American NAZIs are free to
transmit agitation by radio, this is a no-go in Germany.