[wahern]

The BBC?

I'd be the last person to defend RT, but the cost/benefit of blacklisting such a site belies atrocious foresight. Google is opening up a huge can of worms for what will be very little gain in terms of improving the signal-to-noise ratio of mass media consumption.

Facebook, Google, and Twitter are all doing a very poor job of countering the backlash on Capitol Hill. That's partly their own doing as they willfully perpetuated the myth of the magic of their technology. But rather than reign in the misperceptions they're doubling down to save face and making very concrete, very stupid promises.

[beefsack]

The Australian ABC is another example of a state supported news service which would probably be harmful to penalise.

[bruce_one]

If anything the ABC probably has the opposite slant to what GP was talking about (ie slanted against the government rather than for it).

Irrespective, I believe it would be harmful to penalise...

[yostrovs]

Its slant depends on who is the prime minister.

[Sone7]

The BBC are awful. The way they covered Corbyn in the last election was sick and horrifying. They are no longer the example to use in these situations, if they ever really were.

[nailer]

A couple of days ago Alexa gave me a BBC briefing where the newsreader referred to 'President Xi' and 'Mister Trump'. They're not even trying to hide it at this point.