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Writing in the 1990s, the political economist Albert Hirschman gave a label to ‘accept your lot’ defences of the status quo: he called it the ‘futility thesis,’ the fatalistic certainty that new policies inevitably make matters worse over all, so better not to change things at all.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
The arguments by current education reformers: that too many Black parents do not value education and are not transmitting the proper values to their children; that teachers’ unions are an obstacle to racial justice in education; that philanthropists are Black parents’ best ally in the struggle for equality; and that racial justice is not synonymous with desegregation or equitable funding, but rather with market-oriented changes that foster competition and encourage private-sector management of schools are based on a dubious set of propositions about racial politics today.
Education and Capitalism
Sarah Knopp;Jeff Bale
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has finally made it clear it aims to regulate OTT providers just like it has regulated Cable and Television. A historic opportunity at liberalisation is being squandered and a paternalistic mechanism of censorship and government control has been proposed under the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023.
What's worse? The law will also provide statutory powers of the Government over any online creator (or any, news media platform) who engages in the creation of any news or current affairs. They need to follow the, "programme code". What does the existing, "programme code" prohibit, well its a long list but it begins with, "Offends against good taste or decency".
Who will decide what is in "good taste"? Ultimately a government appointed body. Given the wide breadth of people/content who every second create something that is a comment on news or current affairs and do so regularly (when when contrasted against limited state capacity) it does not take a renaissance painter to imagine how it will be applied. Enforcement will most likely be pick and choose and yes based on, "good taste".
Read for yourself. The Draft Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill, 2023 is open for public comments by 09.12.2023.
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