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One of the most interesting arguments is: "Linguistic minorities, long-term migrants, exchange students, etc. – 1 in 10 Europeans[ELEN] – are denied access to
by bruceb 10y ago
One of the most interesting arguments is:
"Linguistic minorities, long-term migrants, exchange students, etc. – 1 in 10 Europeans[ELEN] – are denied access to their culture online."
Of course no geo blocking means English and American content is even more available which could lead to even less linguistic and cultural diversity. This could be a classic case of be careful what you wish for.
- c3o 10y agoUS content is already pretty widely available. Currently, the Danish minority in Germany can watch the 80%-non-EU-made content in the German Netflix repertoire just fine -- but they are blocked from watching the Danish public broadcasters' content online, which is a significant chunk of the content that exists in their language/from their culture. Remember that US-only services could continue to geoblock all Europeans even if geoblocking was eliminated in the EU. In practice it might give these German Danes access to, I dunno, twice the US content they can watch today, and maybe 5 or 10 times more Danish content. Plus 100 times more Estonian, Portuguese, Maltese, and so on. I can't follow the argument that this would lead to less cultural diversity, not more.