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[MrRoboto75]

yar har fiddle dee dee

A pirate party is alright for me

[Rolan7]

Thanks for the information on Ofcom!

What's more, all political advertising on radio and broadcasting is banned in the UK. This is easily one of the sexiest bans any democracy has made. In exchange the parties get like 2 broadcasts for free for each election, which basically means you have to sit through them once every 5 years or so. Compared to US Presidential campaigns spending the economies of small Asian nations every day on attack ads, it's heavenly bliss. It also means that the party with the most money isn't the one always guaranteed to win, since on paper the playing field is even between the smaller parties and the larger ones (as usual, there are loopholes, but the fundamental structure is sound).

tl;dr
1. Stop the FCC from selecting its leadership from the leadership of the USA's media giants. Changing the selection process of commissioners would be necessary. Senators and Presidents beholden to aforementioned media giants, commissioners beholden to their political party ensures that there will never be successful anti-bias media regulation, unless a Pirate Party managed to storm US elections and pigs fly.
2. Make anti-bias regulations in media.
3. Enforce them!
Making an independent anti-bias media regulator might be easier than reforming the FCC though. In conclusion; state media with dominant audience-share is fine and safe as long as it is beholden to powerful regulation which affects all equally well, to the benefit of the audience, with the objective of imparting unbiased and accurate information.

Tom Scott summarized some of this in a cute little video 7 Illegal Things To Do In A British Election which I've probably shared before.
(Heh, random thought - it'd be eerie if that video was made unavailable in some regions.  Surely no one would misuse Youtube reporting like that, though)

[Max™]

The USA is fucking massive

So's yer mum, har har, oi ain't it nearly 6 bongs somewhere?

No but really fuck you and your government regulation of political advertising on tv and shit, I bet it isn't that great, probably makes the FREEDOM taste funny anyways.

[Loud Whispers]

Thanks for the information on Ofcom!

Glad I did something useful for someone

(Heh, random thought - it'd be eerie if that video was made unavailable in some regions.  Surely no one would misuse Youtube reporting like that, though)

Say it aint so

yar har fiddle dee dee

A pirate party is alright for me

Do what you want cause a pirate is free...

The USA is fucking massive

So's yer mum, har har, oi ain't it nearly 6 bongs somewhere?

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM
WHERE IS YER LOICENSE FOR THAT BANTER

No but really fuck you and your government regulation of political advertising on tv and shit, I bet it isn't that great, probably makes the FREEDOM taste funny anyways.

We do not lack for dysfunction in everything else. We are like 1984 but with more Monty Python & Little Britain jokes

[Max™]

Full admission: I am not sure how much of a difference there is between real world Britain and The Laundry Files version.

[Dorsidwarf]

Real ones got more chips and worse humour

[Loud Whispers]

And weirder music

[Max™]

I mean, you forgot about Lector oh wait...

[Rowanas]

Notice for LW specifically.

LW, if you are British, spell things with an S, you retard.  We're Britain - incentivise honour, plagiarise colour.  Otherwise you're part of the American attempt to establish a cultural hegemony over the entire world, and fuck those guys.

This has been a party political broadcast by the "Fuck America, Seriously, It Is The Great Satan" Party

[Loud Whispers]

megan m8 we atlantaciztz now

[Reelya]

Use the long scale for numbers too.

[Kagus]

Use the long scale for numbers too.

Eight and half-fives (98)?

[Hanslanda]

Use the long scale for numbers too.

Eight and half-fives (98)?

... The fuck?

[Kagus]

Use the long scale for numbers too.

Eight and half-fives (98)?

... The fuck?

Quantum arithmetic: Denmark's leading contribution to mathematics.

...it's just a very, very strange language when it comes to numbers.

[scriver]

Also when it comes to language.

Edit: I mean you think we're joking but this is literally the reason we have been at war pretty much constantly throughout history. Their numbering system is extremely likely to be caused by Cthulhu resting in one of the Belts and we are literally the only thing preventing it's corrupting madness from spreading into the rest of the world.