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I both want diverse cultures to flourish & be celebrated but wow, this is not the way. Bossing around entities on the internet to give special treatment to you

I both want diverse cultures to flourish & be celebrated but wow, this is not the way. Bossing around entities on the internet to give special treatment to your niche causes is the new thing, is what everyone all of a sudden is giving themselves laws to do. It just has such limits, pushing other people around to give yourself favor. How is the internet supposed to keep on, when every nation demands their pound of flesh, their personal asks?

voisin 4y ago
> Bossing around entities on the internet to give special treatment to your niche causes is the new thing, is what everyone all of a sudden is giving themselves laws to do. In Canada the only unique thing here is the “on the Internet” component of your sentence. Canada has been bullying business of all sorts into all sorts of things under the guise of “culture” for decades. Apparently our culture is so weak that it can’t stand up on its own and needs the entire edifice of government to prop it up.
- donatj 4y ago
  > Apparently our culture is so weak that it can’t stand up on its own and needs the entire edifice of government to prop it up. It's interesting to me that I live reasonably close to the Canadian border on the US side and yet literally the only Canadian media I know of is Trailer Park Boys / Letterkenny.
  - brewdad 4y ago
    You forgot Hockey Night.
agentofoblivion 4y ago
It’s astounding to me that the bulk of replies in this thread are supportive. Yay big government! Yay Brave New World!
- mlb893 4y ago
  It's easy to understand when most popular streaming services here are foreign owned and have created a terrible image for themselves by producing barely any tax revenue for the country.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    Well doesn’t that say more about the inability of the country to produce its own tech environment where their own citizens prefer media produced by foreign companies?
    - mlb893 3y ago
      It's a free market. Of course, the US will have a lot more companies coming into Canada than the other way around in tech. It has 10x the population and massive amount of capital. So, yes, you are correct Canada is not competitive against the USA in that matter. Though, i'd argue it has nothing to do with the fact that they should be taxed appropriately in Canada. It replaces revenue from TV distribution that was appropriately taxed. Similar discussion to whether we should tax robots labour i think. Also, I think countries have the right to promote their own culture. That might be hard to see from the POV of the country who's culture is slowly boulderizing that of the rest of the planet.
  - agentofoblivion 4y ago
    Is someone stopping Canadians from consuming content created by Canadians?

voisin 4y ago

> Bossing around entities on the internet to give special treatment to your niche causes is the new thing, is what everyone all of a sudden is giving themselves laws to do. In Canada the only unique thing here is the “on the Internet” component of your sentence. Canada has been bullying business of all sorts into all sorts of things under the guise of “culture” for decades. Apparently our culture is so weak that it can’t stand up on its own and needs the entire edifice of government to prop it up.

donatj 4y ago
> Apparently our culture is so weak that it can’t stand up on its own and needs the entire edifice of government to prop it up. It's interesting to me that I live reasonably close to the Canadian border on the US side and yet literally the only Canadian media I know of is Trailer Park Boys / Letterkenny.
- brewdad 4y ago
  You forgot Hockey Night.

agentofoblivion 4y ago

It’s astounding to me that the bulk of replies in this thread are supportive. Yay big government! Yay Brave New World!

mlb893 4y ago
It's easy to understand when most popular streaming services here are foreign owned and have created a terrible image for themselves by producing barely any tax revenue for the country.
- scarface74 4y ago
  Well doesn’t that say more about the inability of the country to produce its own tech environment where their own citizens prefer media produced by foreign companies?
  - mlb893 3y ago
    It's a free market. Of course, the US will have a lot more companies coming into Canada than the other way around in tech. It has 10x the population and massive amount of capital. So, yes, you are correct Canada is not competitive against the USA in that matter. Though, i'd argue it has nothing to do with the fact that they should be taxed appropriately in Canada. It replaces revenue from TV distribution that was appropriately taxed. Similar discussion to whether we should tax robots labour i think. Also, I think countries have the right to promote their own culture. That might be hard to see from the POV of the country who's culture is slowly boulderizing that of the rest of the planet.
- agentofoblivion 4y ago
  Is someone stopping Canadians from consuming content created by Canadians?