11 May 2025

BBC's Digitally backed racial discrimination

This morning, BBC TV Channel telecast interesting episodes in it's Travel Show and Techxplore series. The former was on Alabama (US) and featured Dr Martin Luther King. The latter was how technology has been used in Moroccon towns and cities. 

I tried to provide a link to the two shows, but in vain. BBC Travel Show webpage displayed it's response as follows:

Sorry, BBC iPlayer isn’t available in your region.

It looks like you’re outside of the UK. BBC iPlayer is only available in the UK. If you are using a proxy or VPN, please turn off any of these services and try again.".

I think that this is a subtle manifestation of digitally backed racial discrimination. 

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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.