To block GBNews from my parent’s TV?

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My parents retired 4 years ago. They’re both in their 60s, healthy, happy, comfortable financially.

Since they’ve retired they have been sucked in by every single thing they say on there. They can spend an entire day sat in front of the TV getting angrier and angrier. It’s to the point that if Starmer comes on the TV, they shout about how he should be killed.

it’s genuinely starting to concern me. You can’t have a rational conversation with them about anything. I miss my parents, how they used to be before all the conspiracy and anger took over.

I’m genuinely tempted to block it from their tv using parental controls and just pretending it’s some weird fault in their telly. They’d not be able to fix it.

Extreme views like blocking people's access to media?

I find the opposite, many people who think they are "multicultural" have not really thought through he issues, from experience - Someone moaning about what Farage could do to LGBT rights asked to think about the LGBT views of the majority of people coming into the country from Africa/Asia - silence - Someone blaming their rent costs on "Billionaires" asked to look at the reality since immigration dropped by two thirds - To Let signs everywhere, an African person who told me how much they had to pay to get here etc. being asked if I could just turn up in their country by basically buying a visa - no answer. etc. etc.

If that's aimed at me, I've said I voted YANBU but not because I agree with doing that, but I can understand why OP is considering it.

There's a difference between a viewpoint, and false information marketed as news for the purposes of radicalisation.

Apparently bigots are people who don’t agree with you.

You can say anything about those with whom you disagree - you can even accuse them of encouraging calls to murder without even linking to the particular piece.

Have GB news ever sued for slander!

Anyway, jokes aside, there’s so much irony dripping through the holes in the OP’s story unnoticed by so many posters - that I fear schools have stopped teaching it.

As for the ageism! Well, well, sixty somethings are certainly being abused here.

Refusing them fully operational televisions, controlling their viewing, forced outings and hobbies until they believe 2+2 = 5

To be honest I can’t quite believe that people are seriously debating treating people like this and yet…

Maybe they’re defending the idea of personal freedom in one’s own home.

OP you'd block it if it were your kids being brainwashed watching GBN, so of course you should do the same if your parents are being manipulated by the same cult. I wouldn't call GBN 'news'. OP you sound like a perfectly reasonable sane adult who has the mental health and well being of their parents in mind. Commendable. Do it. Without a backwards glance.
I'd sooner shoot the telly with fresh cow pats than have even a moment of GBN transmitted anywhere near my being. It's odd what people will watch and consider 'acceptable', but GBN like others are particularly good at rage-baiting those who are feeble of mind and will........ Your parents will thank you for it later.

Is there any ageist stereotype or trope that your parents can’t be made fit?

They’re like putty in your hands - perhaps you can put your considerable care for their well being into doing something kind for others in your community?

It doesn’t exactly sound like you like them.

Maybe remove the telly completely, make sure they don't have the internet or papers. Ensure they dont speak to neighbours lest they get brainwashed. Perhaps take some colouring books round weekly for some activity?

Or, accept we are allowed our own opinions and a tolerant adult would accept other people's even if different to their own. Obviously if they persist with their alleged comment that they wanted to shoot you then going NC should be considered.

Maybe not but it has a good crossword section in the Mail.on Sunday.😃

They are not kids, they are adults. The OP has no right to dictate to her parents what they can and cannot watch in their own home, a home she doesn't live in. If the OP doesn't like it she is free to leave at any time and leave her parents to it. What next, she hears that Bob next door also holds the same views as her parents so she demands that they stop seeing him?

Making an exasperated joke about it, fine, but too many on here seem to be taking OP seriously/literally.

Do it as in block someone's access to the news?

It sure is odd what people will consider 'acceptable'.

well we agree about something then.

indeed. Ageism at its finest

I don't know about what a bigot is.

But a great man** once defined a fanatic as "someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject"

And that seems to fit with the OPs problem. It's no that her parents have different views to her. They seem always to have done. It's that those views are becoming more entrenched and simultaneously so consuming every conversation goes back to it. Its quite exhausting to be around that all the time. Regardless of the politics involved (someone who makes every conversation about Thatcher can be just as tiring).

**Or mass murderer, depending on your viewpoint

There is no sadness coming across in your writing - just anger and a strong need to justify your desire to coercively control your parents.

One of my favourite books on my bookshelf. Recommended by my Dad in my youth. Sorry for going off topic.

Oh FGS. The hated Daily Mail again. Some will believe every word and some have the mental capacity to form their own opinions on what they read which is the same with any publication.

I’ve obviously touched a nerve with a lot of people who see no issue with saying this type of thing

Yes, that's my experience too. I think you would only think GB News was beyond the pale if you were well insulated from the pressures being placed on our society.

If I was the OP I would be looking at ways to get them away from the telly rather than policing what they watch.

It’s pretty full on. Perhaps they will work out why they are blocked and do what this thread does but talk to their friends. But about the op and what to do.

I know! Fancy trying to control what your parents watch it's really weird. My dm likes Vera I hate it but live and let live is my motto <mind she doesn't say I should be shot but i struggle to think that any parent would suggest that tbh>.

Nope the issue I see is your wanting to control other adults.

I think I have the opposite problem with my parents. They are desperate to fulfil their bucket list before they die and “do” as much as they can and experience as much as possible. So the latest is their trip to China, no matter the consequences. And I have had my mother whining at me for failing to get her first release tickets to the Bayeux tapestry. And my parents are out non-stop, their social calendar is booked months in advance, they know everyone blah blah blah, there is not a single day they do not have at least 2 social commitments. I would like them to be more available! My dad is writing his 5th book on a very bizarre topic. I think mine are rageing at death and any suggestion that they should be careful or take things easy because X Y Z absolutely met with a teenage style response.