Agcom, the Authority for Communications Guarantees, fined Radio 105 for the “Lo Zoo di 105” program.

Two episodes in particular, aired at the end of 2020, in which, according to the Services and Products Commission (CSP), "sexual allusions, messages of intolerance were pronounced, in a continuous and morbid way, and vulgar expressions were used. derogatory directed especially against women and homosexuals ".

The Guarantor has ascertained a violation of the Tusmar (Consolidated text of audiovisual and radio media services) which prohibits broadcasting "programs that may harm the physical, mental or moral development of minors and films prohibited to minors under the age of 14": hence the fine of 125 thousand euros to the company Radio Studio 105 Spa

According to the Commissioner rapporteur Elisa Giomi, sociologist of the media, "it is out of place to speak of the hyperbolic use of raw expressions or a mere sound element - as the representatives of Radio Studio 105 argued in defense of sanctioned broadcasts - because the humorous register, in these circumstances, it is an aggravating circumstance, it helps to create acceptance and social consensus around hate speech and contemptuous scorn ". "Equally - he continues - the mechanism of obsessive repetition does not cause the loss of meaning of words, but on the contrary increases their harmful load and the potential for reproduction, as happens with viruses that circulate the more they get out of control".

The broadcaster had already been warned in the past by the Authority for having disseminated expressions with a highly disparaging content in violation of the regulation against hate speech (Resolution no. 157/19 / CONS).

(Unioneonline / D)

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