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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I bloody love a good night out, but I am really not a fan of being rinsed. I know it’s London prices and whatever, but the closest pub to me is £6.70 for a pint that isn’t Carling, and something nuts like £8 for a double voddy. Couple that with a pack of cigs (£15) and maybe a cheeky little kebab at the end of the night (£10) and you’re looking at an easy £75 - £100 for one fun night.

    It’s rough, because I really do love to socialise. Nowadays I don’t drink or smoke for the first half of the year because they’re too expensive as habits. If I want to go out in the evening to wind down after work and catch up with friends, I don’t want to pay £20 to sit in the pub for an hour or two and then go home - but I can’t reasonably afford to do much more than that – so sod the whole thing.








  • I don’t disagree with you, and I’d find it hard to comment on exactly how the digital marketing arm of the BBC works when it comes to view counts and how it affects their content, cos I just don’t know. I was just clarifying for you what I thought OP meant.

    I do agree that you’re not self-censoring by choosing to post things you think people will be interested in, though!


  • I think the gist is that OP feels like people visiting sites like BBC News are essentially providing the Marketing department at BBC News with view counts, which they’d use to help guide them on what to report on or suppress, and the visitors were incidentally fueling a sort of subtle censorship just by reading the news.

    Although please feel free to correct me if I’m putting words in your mouth, OP!