They tried it already with news media with Google and Facebook, and were basically told to pound sand. Facebook doesn’t provide news feeds in Canada anymore.
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Album@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Damn I thought we were past the CRTC limiting foreign media.
I was always on the fence about it - they have rules like you have to play Canadian music on the radio x amount of minutes per non Canadian music (or something like that). It’s always made things a bit weird.
When spotify and netflix came about - i thought the government had moved on from that era of control
It’ll be interesting to see how this goes down - i imagine not well.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Album@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Oh yeah, Bill C-18. Honestly… I think that one worked out in the favour of Canadians.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That is not a loss in my books.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean Facebook stopped allowing news in Canada because they tried this too.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 year ago
It’s a balance because most countries don’t want American culture burying their own. Those laws are what has made Canadian musicians so successful over the years. Music is really the only cultural thing that Canada is able to stand up for itself. Forcing broadcasters to dedicate X amount of time to domestic artists is important to prevent American media conglomerates from boxing out small and independent artists.
arefx@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
There are so many incredible artists from Canada and for some reason it’s really hard for the majority of then to breakout in the states even if the quality of music is up to lar or often better than a lot of what’s popular in the USA. It’s always interested me.
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Recommend some good Canadian metal?
Brocon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unleash the Archers
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Sum41 bruh
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
youtu.be/Mr6_PdiAYLU
arefx@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Misery Signals
Album@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Protest the Hero.