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by robertlagrant 1223 days ago
As a Brit I love the idea of a video service just for the titled and ennobled.

May I ask - do the non-peers get any access at all? Even perhaps as a degraded, low resolution service? If so, I'd like to know where to register my disapproval.

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If you do not wish to watch videos of fox hunting, Mayfair house parties and Etonian high jinks, then commons-tube is for you.
These days, a Lords-oriented tube site would actually be full of videos on how to raise money for friends and family without attracting scrutiny, or to sycophant your way to the top of a political party - the primary qualifications of modern peers.
Sir, I believe it is called “RubeTube”.
Don't forget the Boat Race and Royal Ascot. I just hope they won't let the likes of John Oliver onto PeerTube.
He's over on SneerTube.
Spectacular. Also, if you are a Lord, the resolution is 1080p, from there it gets scaled up so Viscount, Earl etc up to you have to be a Duke or minor royal to get 4k.

Audio could be auto dubbed into received pronunciation and any food onscreen automatically replaced by deepfaked cucumber sandwiches.

When Simon Cowell on Britain’s Got Talent used to ask “peers, what do you think?” I thought he was asking his fellow judges. But no! He was asking Piers Morgan!
No peasants allowed, for sure.
Fox hunts are paywalled, though.
Life is paywalled, dear chap.