Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom

Um, we also have an AI labeling task force that will be set up, um, with experts to get into those questions.

And that, again, engages a whole further set of departments, um, so, you know, uh, DCMS, uh, Home Office, MHCLG in that too.

So overall, like, just some, from that very brief overview, this is a real whole government issue.

I mean, I think most departments have contributions to make to these questions.

Yes.

There's something of a brouhaha between, uh, Lisa Nandy, the DCMS secretary.

Uh, for those who are not aware, DCMS stands for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

That-

That's the only cabinet job I would take

Um, we also have an AI labeling task force that will be set up, um, with experts to get into those questions.

And that, again, engages a whole further set of departments, um, so, you know, uh, DCMS, uh, Home Office, MHCLG in that too.

So overall, like, just some, from that very brief overview, this is a real whole of government issue.

I mean, I think most departments have contributions to make to these questions.

I don't know all the ins and outs, but in my mind, that is a positive step.

And the Department for Media, Culture and Sport have also finally appointed their two freelance champions, which is brilliant because I think 40% of the creative industry's workforce is made up by freelancers.

So it's really good to finally see the UK government recognize that and have two people represent freelancers at their top level.

Something actually, when we had Ian Murray, the creative industries minister on the podcast last year, I actually asked him about this and he sort of spoke a bit about it and it was taking a while to have these appointments come through so it's great to finally see that happening there is some positive things happening among all the more negative news stories and in amongst the difficult time as well so we do have to remain optimistic i wanted to mention a few things i didn't want this little episode to be too negative and too doom and gloom um but i did want to sort of also let you guys know sort of future plans for this podcast because a lot of you have asked me like is there going to be a time where the podcast goes back to coming out on the same day every week and yes i'd love to get back to a place where this podcast could become regular on the same day every week but because i've sort of upped my ambitions with this show and i've tried to really make it the best it can be and I'm in the studio a lot more and I record and I'm doing videos and it's on YouTube and everything now as well it's just a lot harder to sort of have an episode ready to go out every week on the same day so longer term that is my aim I want this podcast to go back to a place where it's out every week um but for the next sort of few months it will will be a bit more sporadic i won't be putting episodes out as regularly i will be having a few months off after next week as well because i just need a wee break to go away and record and i've got some rebrands and things i'd like to do to the podcast and things But I will still be putting episodes out.

Uh, she made the point that in June, the government gave industry three months to produce roadmaps for stronger device-level protections aimed at stopping children taking, sharing, or viewing nude images on phones and tablets.

Uh, and she reported that the, uh, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, uh, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and the Home Office officials had since worked extensively with Apple and Google, and that both companies, uh, had made operating system level changes, making it harder for children to share nude imagery, uh, including, uh, blocking rather than blurring such images on underage devices.

Now, just gotta be clear here, this is yet another example of child safety being used as an excuse to roll out surveillance and censorship technology, because these operating system level changes that she's talking about involve scanning content before it's shared or uploaded anywhere.

Uh, so it's nude images today, perhaps tomorrow it'll be content critical of government policy.

So there is no value for any participants to have these discussions.

Now, if we look at the last charter renewal, there'd been about eight months, eight, nine months of pretty big work with the BBC and DCMS.

And then George Osborne decided it all in a weekend.

You know, nature of political involvement in broadcasting generates these things.

So I'm sure the BBC are having good discussions with DCMS.

I'm sure they're doing actually loads of good work.

And when I know some people from both sides, they do it.

The programme's commissioner will be with us.

But Katie, we've got to start with your interview with Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

I know, of course, you talked about the tapestry, but needless to say, there were a number of other issues you'd have wanted to get into.

Yeah, that's absolutely right.