Post 9nmvAVi7NMzu8se2M4 by nebula@plural.cafe
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(DIR) Post #9nlOawqRcexQBJZugy by FuchsiaShock@radical.town
2019-10-09T22:24:17Z
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Sesame Street, a show created for public access television to help kids from low-income families learn to read and write, is being put being a paywall which will prevent the kids who most need it from accessing it.The past 50 seasons are also included in that so they can't be streamed anywhere else.Fuck capitalism.Pirate Sesame Street.
(DIR) Post #9nlOfjNJ8B7fqxEL0i by feld@bikeshed.party
2019-10-09T22:53:20.451472Z
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@FuchsiaShock I've missed all the news surrounding thisDid PBS end Sesame Street and then HBO picked it up?And does this explain why Sesame Street characters are getting licensed for use in all kids of weird ads that have nothing to do with Sesame Street? (farmer's insurance, I think was one?)
(DIR) Post #9nlRMz6shhej0zIe7k by rin@stereophonic.space
2019-10-09T23:23:33.782460Z
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@FuchsiaShock a real capitalist makes their own show, and shows it to their kids. The entrepreneur shows it to the town and gains privileges and favours for the display.I don't get people confusing what some companies do than competing with them in the free market.Ideas are free things friends. You can't sell a story. Kids love being told fables.@xj9
(DIR) Post #9nmrf7XosKMsLwAV5U by wolfie@queer.party
2019-10-09T22:36:23Z
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@FuchsiaShock we really take the BBC for granted
(DIR) Post #9nmrf8F4HWxkW4P2Uy by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2019-10-09T23:34:16Z
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@wolfie @FuchsiaShock I fully admit to watching DangerMouse on CBBC as a grown adult (also as you don't have to sign in) but even public service broadcasting is at risk, eg I can no longer watch the stream of Die Sendung mit der Maus from Germany as *one* contributor won't agree to streaming outside DE so the entire show is often geoblocked by WDR (its made of segments from a number of different rights holders)
(DIR) Post #9nmrf90DSEg0sISgzI by zensaiyuki@mastodon.social
2019-10-10T02:20:54Z
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@vfrmedia @wolfie @FuchsiaShock ironically sesame street was banned in the UK until relatively recently. well, that’s what the wikipedia article says anyhow. citing objections to its educational philosophy.
(DIR) Post #9nmrf9RVokVkExEUXA by FuchsiaShock@radical.town
2019-10-10T08:08:37Z
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@zensaiyuki @vfrmedia @wolfie I grew up watching it, in fact Mum credited it with my early talent for reading (she didn't know about me actually just being an aspie), so it definitely wasn't banned here back in the day.
(DIR) Post #9nmsNxfORoFmkT5nqy by clacke@libranet.de
2019-10-10T15:56:07Z
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@feld @FuchsiaShock Makes me think of that presidential candidate debate with Mitt Romney that was made into an Autotune The News or similar:"""I like Big BirdI like PBSI like you too*But I'm gonna cut the funding to PBS"""* debate was on PBS
(DIR) Post #9nmsucYfwt6Eq2WX1U by zensaiyuki@mastodon.social
2019-10-10T08:31:02Z
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@FuchsiaShock @vfrmedia @wolfie the wikipedia arricle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street_in_the_United_Kingdomso, apparently it was on channel 4 in fhe 1980s but as of 2001 , only in northern ireland
(DIR) Post #9nmsud2SAAv2KOSJRA by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2019-10-10T10:20:40Z
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@zensaiyuki @FuchsiaShock @wolfie I've seen it on ITV when I was a young lad in the late 1970s, even before Channel 4 existed. individual regions of ITV had much more autonomy and could then decide whether or not to show it. AFAIK the main objections were simply that UK kids would be confused by "zee" in the alphabet and other elements of American English (the programme was otherwise good).
(DIR) Post #9nmsudU6VN2Li9OOXI by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2019-10-10T14:04:39Z
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@zensaiyuki @FuchsiaShock @wolfie Consider also that ITV UK was producing the Muppet Show by 1976 (as the USA broadcasters didn't want to fund it) - so many of the same Muppets were already familiar to Brits.This ties in with it being around 1977/1978 that I remember Sesame Street being on telly. By then UK kids already watched imported USA telly anyway, so knew about language and cultural differences (and parents and teachers actively discouraged us from "speaking American")
(DIR) Post #9nmt9saqc4vwuiockK by fireglow@social.firc.de
2019-10-10T00:43:10.404055Z
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@FuchsiaShock @paulgatling at the dawn of the golden era of streaming, paywalls began to rise in the west. The Fellowship must strengthen their bond to one another to be steeled for the upcoming Battle Of Reasonably Free Content.
(DIR) Post #9nmuqv3NRT4SwyFMJ6 by Retrodude@elekk.xyz
2019-10-09T23:32:21Z
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@FuchsiaShock Between this and the characters shilling in ads for products that preschoolers aren't even inclined towards caring about like insurance and SUVs I can practically feel an earthquake from Jim Henson rolling in his grave.
(DIR) Post #9nmuqvbPOwIEeWAXLs by xenophora@mastodon.art
2019-10-10T16:28:17Z
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@Retrodude @FuchsiaShock Jim sold his creations to Disney before his passing, though. So maybe he wouldn't care that much. :/
(DIR) Post #9nmvAVi7NMzu8se2M4 by nebula@plural.cafe
2019-10-10T07:58:18Z
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@FuchsiaShock A lot of episodes appear to still be on YouTube. That's how my kids watch them.
(DIR) Post #9nmvAbkSvYRMrtmzqa by xenophora@mastodon.art
2019-10-10T16:31:29Z
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@nebula @FuchsiaShock I like finding the bits from my own 1970s childhood. It seems like back then they were more freewheeling, and there was more stuff slipped in to entertain grownups who might be watching with kids. Also Elmo sucked.
(DIR) Post #9nmw2PVEfkS0WiJwGG by nebula@plural.cafe
2019-10-10T16:39:12Z
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@xenophora @FuchsiaShock I know, and now he's a franchise with his own spin-off segment. My kids don't miss a second of Elmo's World.
(DIR) Post #9nmw2Q1qiUXS9rZz60 by xenophora@mastodon.art
2019-10-10T16:41:21Z
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@nebula @FuchsiaShock Compared to Grover, Herry, et al he's just never seemed to have any personality at all.