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General comment: You'd prefer we simply ban your content? 'Cause we can do that if you'd prefer. It's not as if ... Well, let's move to a specific comment to finish that sentence.

“this burdensome framework unfairly targets global streamers with requirements that directly violate Canada’s obligations under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA),”

... the USMCA matters any longer since the USA seems to think it can take a shit all over it every time the world's oldest toddler gets colicky and throws a tantrum. The USMCA isn't worth the paper it's printed on, nor the bits it's stored in. I wouldn't be trying to brandish that thing in the face of the unilateral tariffs that your nation has decided to throw at Canada in direct contravention of that agreement you want to suddenly invoke.

Go fuck yourselves, Yanks. Especially considering:

The MPA in March 2026 put its support behind the Republican-led Protecting American Streaming and Innovation Act, ...

Like seriously. Go. Fuck. Yourselves.

Personally? I'm making sure from now on that not a cent I spend goes toward an American company, even (perhaps especially) an American entertainment company. 🏴‍☠️ all the way now.

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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 14 points 20 hours ago

Fuck those rich streaming bitches and fuck that Nazi Noah.

Tax the rich.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 7 points 19 hours ago

Carney walked back Trudeau‘s streaming content thingy. But that did not stop me from cancelling all of my US services, and sticking to CBC.

Oh and I sail the high seas for all the other media I want, I stopped back in the early to mid 2000’s but it is amazing how far it has come since than. There are apps that you can get that follow TV shows and download them after they have aired automatically, movies can be automatically downloaded on schedules the whole shabang.

[–] tangeli@piefed.social 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It would be better to put a 20% tariff on US online services sold in Canada and let (an appointed agency of) the government allocate the money to Canadian content producers. If it's left to US streamers to decide what to fund, it will be thinly veiled US content and propaganda produced by some US company operating in Canada, charging exorbitant rates to achieve the required 15% and sending all profits back to the US.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 0 points 20 hours ago

I'd prefer an across-the-board 100% tariff on all American goods and services, with an additional tariff matching any US tariffs on similar goods and services, until all American tariffs on Canadian goods are dropped to zero.

And then keep the 100% tariff anyway because fuck the USA.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago

Oh no, guys, we've been slammed!

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

Boo fuckin' hoo, shitbags.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

Discriminatory? Really??

Canadian broadcasters have always been required to spend a portion of their revenue on supporting Canadian made content.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 19 hours ago