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A Belgian broadcaster interrupted its coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Thursday night to display a protest message condemning Israel's war on Gaza. In an act organised by a trade union, the screen briefly went black ahead of the semi-final coverage on VRT, Belgium's public-service broadcaster in Flemish.

It then aired the message: "This is a union action. We condemn the human rights violations by the state of Israel. Moreover, the state of Israel destroys press freedom. Therefore, we are interrupting the broadcast momentarily."

The message concluded with the hashtags "CeasefireNow" and "StopGenocide".

A spokesperson for VRT told Belgian media that the broadcaster was aware the action would take place. "We were informed that it would happen. Trade unions have the right to take action and do not need permission for it. I can only confirm that we have taken note of the action," said spokesperson Yasmine Van der Borght.

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[โ€“] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, Israel stands to win tomorrow because right wingers that are usually antisemites, have suddenly decided that they hate Muslims more.

[โ€“] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How does voting for Eurovision work? Is it ID registered or something?

[โ€“] Antergo@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can call/text up to 20 times, or vote online. But basically ripe for being rigged

[โ€“] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So you're telling me it's pay2win...

[โ€“] Antergo@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Essentially, yeah (:

[โ€“] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

~~Online voting is free of charge.~~ Apparently it costs e.g. 0,20 โ‚ฌ from Germany and 0,99 โ‚ฌ from a non EBU or not participating country.

[โ€“] Microw@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

No, it also prompts a payment dialogue

[โ€“] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What would happen if someone were to, say, use free phone numbers from Google voice or something like that to spam thousands of votes?

[โ€“] Antergo@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No idea, but I'm guessing the might block payments via their number. (you have to to pay still, besides the calling fees,im pretty sure)

[โ€“] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago

Ooohh, I misunderstood. I thought it was like, "20 free call-votes then your votes stop counting" kinda thing.

[โ€“] RedPandaRaider@feddit.de -1 points 6 months ago

Aren't the winners already decided in before anyway?

I really doubt that any winner has been chosen by real votes for years.