Why Haven't These Tv Stations Been Closed Down?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276753/Muslim-fanatics-spouting-British-TV-Extremists-use-fringe-stations-terror-murder-torture-gay-people.html#axzz2KPXE0d8X

/// Tala Rajab, who wrote the report for Quilliam, an anti-extremist think-tank, told the Sunday Telegraph the ‘shocking’ incidents raised serious questions over broadcast regulation ///

/// ‘If these kind of comments were made against black people, for example, you can imagine a channel being shut down overnight, particularly if they had incited violence against a minority.’ ///

[Zeuhl]

Well for one thing, stations like Peace TV are based in Mumbai, programming for the UK is produced in Mumbai and then it is streamed over the internet

How do you propose we close them down?

[Zeuhl]

Correction, Peace TV satellite broadcasts come from Dubai

though still outside of our judicial process

[anotheoldgit]

triggerhippy

/// So that answers that then ///

Not so trigger, if that was correct we wouldn't have any control over any illegal matter that other countries chose to stream down to our TVs.

[jake-the-peg]

Uh huh!

So when there's a foreign satelite broadcasting something you don't like would you like us to shoot it down? send in gunships to that country?

Say shall we put in a big firewall so that people can only go to web sites we approve of too?

Wake up and smell the coffee - England is a tiny relatively unimportant section of the world our ability tc control and censor foreign media sources is highly limited

[FredPuli43]

Well we haven't control, in practice, over the content if a station is based abroad, none of its broadcasters are in the jurisdiction and it broadcasts only via the internet, or, presumably, satellite dish set up for the purpose of receiving the broadcasts.

We do have some control over those broadcasting from within the UK, by fines or removing their right to broadcast and by criminal prosecution of individuals for 'race hate' crime. It rather looks as though one has been fined, as a warning. If the like material is broadcast again, it is be hoped that it will be refused permission to broadcast

[sp1814]

It says in the report that PeaceTV is based in Birmingham?

[Zeuhl]

Well Ofcom has more opportunity to regulate Islam UK which is UK based and the mainstream Islamic broadcaster supposedly watched by the majority of British Muslims.

From what I'm told, their transgressions have been few and far between compared with some of the fringe stations such as Peace TV, though Ofcom is keeping a close eye on them.

Ofcom can be a bit toothless but they can also levy hefty fines which Islam UK will want to avoid

[Zeuhl]

sp

It's not

They may have a 'Branch Office' in Brum but it's all run from Dubai

[emmie]

these people, if so not very peaceful.

http://www.peacetv.tv/en-gb/

[emmie]

its a bit long, but interesting,

[sp1814]

AOG - is the answer that these 'stations' can't actually be closed down, because they're not in the UK?

By the way - it's refreshing to see you become such a champion of gay rights.

[emmie]

but they can be discredited. In pretty much the same way our so called experts can.

[tamborine]

Cant wait to read keyplus comment to that broadcast em10. The blind leading the blind :)

[emmie]

for those who haven't watched the link, please do, very illuminating.

[bazwillrun]

I'm pretty sure the transmissions from these scum who hate our flag but love our benefits can be blocked if the government really wanted to and the same with thier streamed transmissions.

[emmie]

i expect our security services already know who these people are, and can keep an eye on proceedings.

[anotheoldgit]

Seems like a very learned gentleman EM, I don't think.

If he is a prime example of an Islamic scholar no wonder they have got many things wrong.

[emmie]

this is the point, that many so called scholars are no such thing, that they can expound their theories, and gullible people can swallow them. But like the rest of the religious communities, they can be discredited, and really you don't have to look far. sadly many do not see this, they follow the party line, swallow it hook, line and sinker..