StillPaisleyCat @ StillPaisleyCat @startrek.website

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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.

We can agree on remote communities having different circumstances, and social networks.

That said, I doubt that this would apply any less in the Okanagan communities where there are many people living on backroads and off the grid or in most of Canada outside the major metropolitan areas.

Here is a Walrus feature on the story of a mother whose son went unexpectedly missing from the University of Toronto, and whose body was found washed up from Lake Ontario much later.

The family’s attempts to access her late son’s email and social media accounts from Google and Facebook went to court, and there was an order, but both refused to comply and insisted she take it through California courts (which she eventually did as part of a group case).

The mother’s efforts were also reported on by the Ottawa Citizen in several articles and a video, the CBC, and the Globe and Mail .

While this case raised significant questions of digital privacy and what should be the legal standard to access accounts posthumously in cases of missing and suspicious deaths, Facebook and Google fought the case on the grounds of jurisdiction and refused to comply with the Canadian court order.

But Facebook is doing business in Canada while refusing to be subject to Canadian law or courts while doing it.

It’s platforms are up in Canada, recruiting members, collecting and monetizing data on Canadians.

There have been court cases and orders in Canada where both Meta and Google have refused to comply with judicial decisions on the grounds that only California and US federal courts have jurisdiction over them.

The law in this case could require Meta, Google and X to carry emergency information and links to it without monetization, just as it does for private broadcasters and cable carriers.

Agreed. But this is a societal dependence.

Too many clubs, churches and communities organizations, and small businesses found Facebook easier to maintain than websites, so many people became dependent on that platform.

The challenge is that governments have a duty to meet their constituents where they are, especially in emergencies. So they send out Tweets, ‘grams and posts directing people to the information on official sites.

Before the Internet, people would turn on their radios or televisions. That’s why in most jurisdictions (including the United States) broadcasters and cable carriers MUST carry emergency broadcasts, superceding regular programming. The wave of climate-related emergencies raise the question of whether internet aggregator platforms should be required to do the same.

As an aside, governments and public new sources maintain websites that are accessible. Due to a Canadian Supreme Court decision requiring government platforms to be accessible to persons with disabilities, Canadian new sites have user interfaces that are adaptive.

Like what?

Meta and X are acting preemptively before the government has even finalized how the system would work.

The law hasn’t even come into force. The regulations haven’t even been Gazetted and put through the public consultation period.

Meta and X feel that they shouldn’t be subject to the law of any other country. That’s what’s at the foundation of this.

They do have these platforms, but many people have become dependent on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to link to information.

So the territorial government is literally posting on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter telling people how to search for CPAC Canada and CBC Radio so they can find the sites.

Compare that to the duty of all broadcasters in a public emergency to carry the key evacuation information on radio and television and tell people where to get more detailed emergency instructions.

Well, whatever the reason, that means you’ve got a lot of yet to be seen Trek content to enjoy.

I’d recommend working through TAS’ 22 short episodes first. Lower Decks makes a lot of callbacks to TAS and even Prodigy has a few.

You can by a digital copy of the full season of 20 episodes through most of the usual digital vendors.

It’s something more established in other countries.

So, I can see some writers not wanting projects to be developed for say the UK rather than US just to get the auteur projects.

But it is very niche, and there should be a way to create a very narrow provision for those specific situations.

Besides, even some true auteurs, adapting and extending their own works, seem to be able to work with others in the writers room and give them credit. e.g., Neil Gaiman took lead script credit for all the episodes of Good Omens season two, but had 4 other writers in the room, and gave each a ‘minisode’ credit for embedded flashbacks.

Taylor Sheridan, by contrast, seems to want the universe to be designed to fit his own model.

While we can’t see the quote tweets without being on Twitter, I am not surprised.

It seems that there a case to be made to be some exceptions for some very short limited series that really are like multiple part movies.

On the whole though, the ‘Showrunners need flexibility’ argument is untenable. Without the contractual requirement for larger rooms, showrunners who are trying to build larger rooms to develop writers and producers do not have the ability to push back against the pressures of studios and production companies to minimize the rooms and effectively demand unpaid overtime from the small core of writers.

The cancellation was announced just before the end of the last quarter along with a couple of other shows. The justification was better alignment of their core streaming strategy but it wasn’t convincing.

It doesn’t make a lot of sense given that Paramount+ branded itself as the home of all Star Trek and the show was the second most in-demand original animated show on the streamer in 2022 after Lower Decks.

That said, the show was originally intended to be shown on Nickelodeon which has been in a viewership free fall since 2017 as kids have moved away from watching cable. I have to wonder then if the decision on Prodigy may have been more of a decision about extracting Nickelodeon from its share of the expenses.

In any event, buying the show and showing support is a key way to keep building the case for it to find a home on another streamer. There’s also a change.org petition that’s getting close to 35k signatures now.

Had the show gone into production May 2, 2023 as planned, the wait would have been long but we would have had other Trek content to divert us in the meantime.

With the strike postponing season three production before it began, it may be years in truth.

It’s only available to purchase - either as a DVD set or through an Apple,Amazon etc.

At least until it finds a new home.

Sorry She-Hulk didn’t work for you.

Won’t ask what put you off but suggest seeing it through to the end.

As someone who read the comics it felt very comic-accurate while adding in the clearly feminist perspective of its creator/showrunner. Basically, it took a female action hero created by men and gave her ownership by women.

An Inverse review provides another take, and reports on comments from Straczynski and Boxleitner about what the ending means for a future Bab 5 semi-reboot/reimagining. (There’s some kind of discussion bonus feature on the DVD.)

It’s a huge spoiler. Both for the new animated story but also the future of the Babylon 5 franchise. Not sure how I’m feeling about this. Adding this here more as a content warning for those who don’t want to be spoiled.

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