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Speaker 1: Tell me how Paul Goldsmith, Broadcasting Minister, is going to

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Speaker 1: sort the unsortable. So the Broadcasting Standards Authority, as I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you're well aware, deliberately or not opened a box

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Speaker 1: of whoopee. Basically that's been played out all over the

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Speaker 1: world and various forms. So in simple terms, regulators are

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Speaker 1: trying to work out how to control tech. The problem

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Speaker 1: with regulators is their jurisdictions. Limited problem with tech is

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Speaker 1: there is no boundary, There is no boarder. The same

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Speaker 1: way government isn't going to charge a tech company for

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Speaker 1: nicking news and putting it on their websites. Broadcasting Watchdog

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Speaker 1: is not going to control Joe Rogan. The Prime Minister's

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Speaker 1: already worked all this out, of course, and he said

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Speaker 1: so last Monday. But then the Broadcasting Minister and that

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Speaker 1: ponderous sort of surprise laid in fashion that's unique for

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Speaker 1: Paul Goldsmith started wondering out loud why the Herald Now

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Speaker 1: stream wasn't regulated while breakfast television was. That, of course,

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Speaker 1: is the simple version of the problem. You're only dealing

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Speaker 1: with the difference in transmission mode i e. Terrestrial via

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Speaker 1: the net. Next issue, if you're regulating the net, what net,

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Speaker 1: where's it stop and start local streaming? What's local streaming?

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Speaker 1: If you're protecting an audience, surely you have to protect

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Speaker 1: them universally, And yet you can't. Even if Goldsmith argues

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Speaker 1: the line that things that look like radio or look

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Speaker 1: like television are captured. What are the radio consumed in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand originates in London? Next problem? If you regulate

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Speaker 1: the net, where does that start and stop? Does a

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Speaker 1: podcast look like radio? What about short firm versus form

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Speaker 1: versus long form? What about local content on TikTok? And

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Speaker 1: if so, why not all content on TikTok? Answer? Because

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Speaker 1: you can't. And if you can't, how's it fear to

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Speaker 1: regulate my TikTok? But not Piers Morgan's talk about a

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Speaker 1: horse and bolting. Government looks old world, don't they. They

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Speaker 1: look sort of am in an FM world. They look

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Speaker 1: like they're trying to save letters from the Internet. They

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Speaker 1: look like control freaks who don't know how to save

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Speaker 1: their own powers right or wrong, making me adhere to

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Speaker 1: rules while every half baked weirdo on the net gets

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Speaker 1: to say whatever they like as the cold hard reality

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Speaker 1: of the hero and now save yourself the time and

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Speaker 1: the headache and give it up. For more from the

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