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Or Parliament may pass further legislation on accelerated calendar that will require Meta to carry links in declared emergencies much as cable companies and private broadcasters are now.

Perhaps we’d do better to look at the text of Bill C-18.

You seem to be saying that the law itself has already laid out that Meta is who it applies to.

Instead, it says that a list needs to be established.

List of digital news intermediaries 8 (1) The Commission must maintain a list of digital news intermediaries in respect of which this Act applies. The list must set out each intermediary’s operator and contact information for that operator and specify whether an order made under subsection 11(1) or 12(1) applies in relation to the intermediary.

Meta clearly sees that the law is intended to apply to digital platforms with significant market power such as it has. But it has not yet been designated.

Timing - coming into force - you are correct that there is a hard deadline at end of year.

180 days after royal assent (6) Despite subsections (1) to (5), any provision of this Act that does not come into force by order before the 180th day following the day on which this Act receives royal assent comes into force 180 days after the day on which this Act receives royal assent.

Basically, you are justifying Meta’s actions on the basis that it recognizes that a law it doesn’t like will apply to it in future.

The tax and the legislation is at least a half a year from coming into force, the regulatory framework to operationalize it hasn’t even been published for public consultation.

Meta has started blocking preemptively. This is a power play protest about avoiding being subject to other countries’ law. That’s it.

Glad to hear you’re giving it all a genuine try.

Most of it is no less great on average than 90s Trek. Just different.

It’s unfortunate many longtime fans weren’t willing to give it a chance to find its groove, much the same as the TOS fans resisted giving TNG a chance.

TNG’ first season and much of the second were rough, but it was a personal risk to stand up at a Star Trek Con in 1989 and say you were a TNG fan. By 1993, when DS9 was running too, everyone at cons were TNG fans too.

As a long haul fan who saw this happen then, I’ve found it sad to see Trek fandom repeating the cycle.

CBC provides service in the north in numerous Indigenous languages, including through its Facebook pages which many in those communities rely on.

As a public broadcaster it has a duty to meet the needs of Canadians for essential information where they look not just in English and French on standard internet sites, or even their low bandwidth emergency ones.

Once again, THE LEGISLATION HAS NOT YET COME INTO FORCE.

Yelling is rude, but the repeated questions that seem to ignore that Meta’s blocking of links is preemptive is beginning to have the feel of sealioning.

Meta is not at risk of any tax if they unblock links during this emergency.

Hate to yell but THE LEGISLATION HAS NOT COME INTO FORCE.

There would be ZERO cost to Meta, and they would continue to make as revenue off public broadcaster’s content.

It seems to be need to said repeatedly that Meta has acted preemptively, while the regulations necessary to operationalize the legislation haven’t even been put out for formal public consultation in the Canada Gazette. The Gazetting process will be an opportunity for Meta, Google and others to again make their case about the issues.

Share the feeling.

I personally never buy the fridging a character to ‘make it real’ argument, but it seems to have a great deal of sway with a certain generation of writers.

Unfortunately the EP/writers arguing this are almost always heterosexual cisgendered males and the characters fridged are almost always women, LGBTQ+ or in the case of Hemmer, a person with disability.

And like most systemic bias, they just don’t seem to see the issue. After the backlash from killing off Culber in the first season of Discovery, Akiva Goldsman (and Alex Kurtzman who signs off on the season arcs), should have been more hesitant to repeat the situation with another representation character. I don’t doubt their progressive values, but this can only be understood as an enormous blind spot.

There are blocking public, government funded broadcasters that are required to carry public information in emergencies.

This includes CBC which has radio, internet radio and a website as well as CPAC Canada that is a funded by a consortium of cable companies as part of their licensing.

In NWT, many people rely on a local station Cabin Radio as their key source of information. It’s now listed as closed by the territorial government had been asking people to listen to it as a more reliable source of evacuation guidance than Facebook.

Lemmy is neither large enough nor monetizing our views so it’s outside the scope of the legislation and the new regulations that will need to be written, formally consulted through the Canada Gazette process and then approved by Cabinet. Basically, what Lemmy’s doing is still fair use by a carrier.

As I understand it, the Canadian legislation is different than the Australian one in that the Australian version would just have had a minister name which companies would be subject to the tax.

Canada, having been in trade disputes with the US over ministerial designation processes that can be argued to lack transparency, went a different route that would make the tax come into effect for large platforms, monetizing content without paying the sources/creators.

Your reaction to Prodigy seems to be very common. Spread the word!

It’s unfortunate that many franchise fans let themselves be put off by the kids/family branding, animation or the fact that it starts out in a place and situation that feels more like another franchise in order to draw new audiences in.

That does mean though that it has room to grow. Prospective buyers are taking note of the numbers of new viewers even since it was pulled from Paramount+.

The explanation from the EPs is somewhat lame, and exposes some awkward systematic abelism, despite best intentions.

They intended to have a new character die to support Uhura’s character development. They ended up creating a great Aenar character when they asked Kirsten Beyer to suggest a potential alien. Then they cast a legal blind actor to play him who was so much more capable in his craft than they had hoped for.

But they were fixed in their idea that it was necessary to fridge an important character to develop Uhura (🤦🏽‍♀️).

Which leaves the EPs searching for other roles for Bruce.

On the other hand, if Bruce Horak becomes the multi-character Jeffrey Combs of current Toronto Trek productions, it would be an important advance for representation in its own right.

On one hand this interview gives a strong signal that the fans need to keep pressing with the advocacy to support getting Prodigy back on a streamer, but on the other it keeps teasing more and more that will pull in a broader range of adult fans.

Another visit to DS9? So many fans would campaign just for that alone.

And there’s other legacy Star Trek shows with very prominent space stations we like to visit.

The whole point in an emergency is to get the official guidance out to where people look first for information, not retrain them to go to official sites.

What you are suggesting is that Facebook and Twitter be legally required to push official emergency information from governments to the top. That would parallel what the broadcasters and cable carriers typically have to do. It makes sense, but given that they don’t seem to want to be obligated to carry government information except as paid advertising, this would require a new emergency system for internet platforms.

No clue why, but it’s what the government is saying in its tweets.

Cell towers work in some but not all the smaller hamlets.

This doesn’t seem to the point however. Meta and X not carrying links isn’t a barrier for those who have no Internet access whatsoever. Whether north of 60 or not, a very significant portion of the population has become reliant on Meta and X to feed them news to the point that they don’t know where to get reliable evacuation guidance in an emergency.

As an aside, resilient emergency communications to the public a reason that the CBC will be maintaining AM radio stations that broadcast curve of the Earth. The public needs to know where to find that and have AM radios to access it however.

True. But Meta hasn’t left as yet.

And there are users here suggesting that the Canadian government shouldn’t be attempting to legislate or regulate Meta.

Kelowna is a significant regional metropolitan area.

But get into the bush beyond Vernon or up to William’s Lake and you will find that people who used to rely heavily on CBC and other AM radio in a crisis are looking to their regular internet sources. If that’s where they get their information, then that’s where government’s need to make sure it’s available in an emergency.

They are regrettably popular and influential with a certain swath of fans, particularly among those who are Berman-era fans.

Terry Matalas courted them assiduously to bring a target niche of disgruntled and vocal fans back to the franchise for season three of Picard. It was successful to some extent, but now they are campaigning for all new Trek content to be ‘Terry Trek.’ They have hats and t-shirts and everything.

And therefore a reason to exercise caution in using YouTube.