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Dylan Reeve

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I make TV and film. I write stuff. I was on #TheTraitorsNZ. Wrote FAKE BELIEVE (http://bit.ly/fakebelieve). Made TICKLED documentary. He/Him. [email protected]

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · Jan 27

I tend to post different things to different social media platforms, but I'm going to put this same thing on all of them because it really matters.

Trans rights are human rights!

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 9h

Come on FENZ get Fire(fighter) wise!! Support your local firefighters on strike this Friday! Sticking for safer working conditions and fair pay! Talk more over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/come-on-gu...

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5h

Yeah, I figured. But suddenly made me think of AITA

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5h

This suddenly made me curious about something, and yes... ChatGPT is very good at writing clickbait AITA posts.

I already assumed most were fake, but I can't see how you could trust any now.

Reposted by Dylan Reeve

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12h

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5h

It's been so very long since I've seriously made an effort at Linux on the Desktop... I used it extensively in the year of Linux on the Desktop (2001).

What's the smart choice of distribution for turnkey desktop/laptop use these days?

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5h

I've never worried about forgetting the room number before. Not sure why that concern occurred to me this time

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

When I was staying in a hotel last week I had this paranoia that I totally wouldn't remember my room number, so I actually kept my card in the little envelope with the room written on it.

I never do that!

I also did not forget my room number even once.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

The Law: It's All Guesses Until It Ends Up In Court!

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

Yeah... I guess? Although I feel like BSA may have made rulings against TVNZ/TV3 on-demand content that was on-demand streaming only in the past?

I dunno, it's all guesses for now I suppose.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

No, livestreaming is clearly a broadcast.

Although you could argue at a technical level it's actually a series of unicasts (as IP protocols actually allow for some explicit broadcast methodologies).

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

My reading of the definition of "broadcasting" in Section 2 in the Act is that it excludes on-demand content (ie. only capturing live streams).

"...does not include any such transmission of programmes [...] made on the demand of a particular person for reception only by that person..."

But IANAL

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

I'm most interested by the (a) exclusion of the "broadcast" definition in the Act. By my reading it would seem to exclude any sort of on-demand content (such as podcasts and hosted videos). Which makes sense with respect to the broader technical understanding of a broadcast.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

Of course, Sean has friends in high places, so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Winston is being pretty dramatic here though, given the BSA hasn't even considered the actual complaint yet, let alone done any stasi-style censorship.

Stuff article preview with the headline:
Winston Peters accuses broadcasting watchdog of ‘Soviet era stasi’ censorship

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

I see you reposting my thread @chewienz.bsky.social... For what it's worth I suspect the precedent set here might also be applied to BHN. Although maybe the BSA sees a distinction in the self-hosted multi-programme nature of The Platform?

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

And you can see why Sean is concerned... Ignoring the rulings of the BSA isn't a trivial matter.

14 Offences

Every broadcaster commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,000—

(a) who fails to comply with an order made in respect of that broadcaster under section 13(1); or
(b) who contravenes an order made under section 13A.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

Being a broadcaster would then mean he's bound by Section 4 of the act... legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1...

While there's seemingly no specific approved code for what The Platform is, I still think that 4(1)(a) and 4(1)(d) might prove challenging for Sean and his friends going forward.

4 Responsibility of broadcasters for programme standards

(1) Every broadcaster is responsible for maintaining in its programmes and their presentation, standards that are consistent with—
(a) the observance of good taste and decency; and
(b) the maintenance of law and order; and
(c) the privacy of the individual; and
(d) the principle that when controversial issues of public importance are discussed, reasonable efforts are made, or reasonable opportunities are given, to present significant points of view either in the same programme or in other programmes within the period of current interest; and
(e) any approved code of broadcasting practice applying to the programmes.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

IANAL, but it seems to me that a radio program that is streamed live via internet video and audio would fall within this definition.

Excerpt from Section 2 (Interpretation) of the Broadcasting Act 1989

"broadcasting" means any transmission of programmes, whether or not encrypted, by radio waves or other means of telecommunication for reception by the public by means of broadcasting receiving apparatus but does not include any such transmission of programmes

(a) made on the demand of a particular person for reception only by that person; or

(b) made solely for performance or display in a public place

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 7h

Thoughts and prayers to Sean Plunket who, it seems, is entering the "Find Out" stage of broadcasting.

NZ Herald article preview with the headline:
'We're going to war': Broadcasting watchdog claims authority over The Platform; Sean Plunket hits out

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 8h

I went back to the article to check - they now say they have 2.25FTE and that includes the general manager (she was included before too) but you're right it is perhaps implied that King is >1 FTE.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 8h

I see the number was updated to 2.25FTE after publication. Although the organisation's statements possibly imply King is more than 1FTE in their estimation

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 9h

Look, certainly happy with that. But that one extra book would be so satisfying.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 9h

I'm begging the librarians of New Zealand - buy another copy of my book. Just one...

Or, I guess you could collectively remove 30 copies? That would also be numerically satisfying.

Summary of copies of "Fake Believe: Conspiracy Theories in Aotearoa" held in New Zealand public libraries. The 2024 and 2025 counts are both at 99.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 9h

Even saying "two executives" appears to be generous. It's 1.32FTE so it's one executive (King) and a part-timer doing about 1.5 days a week.

Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 11h

This stinks more than a soggy gumboot , King's execs get 527k which is what some other charities run on per year if they haven't been cut altogether by this cretinus gov..

#nzpol

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 10h

How about they can wear any clothing (or none!) but a powdered wig is totally mandatory for all MPs?

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 11h

Like, even specific individual ones? And even if it's just sort of vague hope for bad things to happen?

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 11h

The State Department said the U.S. “has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.”

State Department Pulls Visas Over Charlie Kirk Comments

The department gave six examples of what it said were visa holders “celebrating” Kirk’s killing.