Countries including Spain, Ireland and Finland raise concerns about the song contest's public vote.
  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    It’s technically not countries participating, but broadcasters and they need to be independent of state control

    So…same problem as the geography question then. How the fuck does Australia participate? As best I can tell, it’s broadcast here on SBS, a state-owned broadcaster.

    • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      The person you replied to said that the needed to be independent of state control, not that they couldn’t be state owned.

      I don’t know about SBS but it is broadcast on BBC One in the UK which is also state owned but is not directly controlled by the state.