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Mediawatch: What is broadcasting - and who decides? (www.rnz.co.nz)
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Last Wednesday, Sean Plunket - founder and boss of alternative streaming service the Platform - read aloud a letter he'd had from the BSA telling him someone had objected to Plunket describing Māori tikanga as "mumbo jumbo" earlier this year.

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

things the government doesn’t like.

Only likely to happen from one particular side of the aisle.

Most of our public services are reasonably independent of the government, for now at least.

I imagine the BSA is quite careful walking the censorship line... censorship is expensive, they are unlikely to ever have the budget for it.